Breakdown of Toplantı için hazırlanmaya mecbur.
toplantı
meeting
hazırlanmak
to get ready
için
for
mecbur
obliged
Questions & Answers about Toplantı için hazırlanmaya mecbur.
Why does "to prepare" end with -maya here instead of being the normal infinitive -mak?
This is the focus of your current lesson! The adjective mecbur (obliged) requires the action you are obliged to do to be in the dative case (the "to/towards" direction). To add a case ending to a verb, we drop the -k to make the verbal noun hazırlanma, add the buffer letter y, and finally add the dative suffix -a.
Wait, isn't "to prepare" hazırlamak? Why is there an "n" in hazırlanmaya?
Yes, hazırlamak means to prepare something else (like a meal or a report). Adding the -n makes the verb reflexive: hazırlanmak means to prepare oneself or to get ready. Since he is getting himself ready for the meeting, we use this reflexive version.
Why doesn't toplantı have an ending before için? I thought için required the genitive case.
The postposition için (for) only forces the previous word into the genitive case if that word is a pronoun (like benim için - for me, or bunun için - for this). With regular nouns like toplantı (meeting), you just use the plain dictionary form of the word.
Where is the "he is" part of the sentence? There's no verb at the end.
It is implied! Mecbur is an adjective. In Turkish, you often don't need a specific verb for "is" in the third person. Because there is no personal ending on mecbur (like -um in mecburum for "I am obliged"), we automatically know it refers to he, she, or it.
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