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20 Jan 2006 Fri 04:27 pm |
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Quoting angelina-Melek: Quoting bod: Oh Memet - we still have this question outstanding!!!!
olmalıydı ???
"It ought to have come into being" ???
Is it constructed as follows:
ol-malı-y-dı = verb stem + neccesitative tense + fusion consonant + 3rd person simple past tense
How is olmalıydı constructed???
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Olmak – to be
Olmalı – it should be, it must be. The suffix “malı, meli†is used to create the obligative meaning, e.g.
Gitmeli – he/she has to go
Yapmalıyım – I have to do (smth), etc.
Olmalıydı – it should have been (or, I think, “it had to be). So we added the past tence suffix “dıâ€.
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Teşekkür ederim!
So I had split the verb up correctly - I had just misinterpretted the necessitative tense suffix 
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