Questions & Answers about آن راننده خیلی خسته است.
In English we say "that driver". Does Farsi also put ân before the noun?
Yes! Just like in English, singular demonstrative words like ân (that) and in (this) come directly before the noun they point to.
Look at the first letter in ân. Why does it have a squiggly line on top?
That is an Alif with a madda (آ). When a Farsi word begins with the "â" sound, it uses this special letter instead of a regular, plain Alif (ا).
Does ân change if the driver is female?
No, Farsi does not have grammatical gender. You will use ân for "that" regardless of whether the person or object is male, female, or inanimate.
Do we need an ezâfe (the hidden connecting "e" sound) after rânandeh to link it to khasteh?
No, because this is a full sentence stating what the driver is. You only use the ezâfe when grouping words into a descriptive phrase (like saying "that tired driver"). Since the driver here is tired, the verb ast does the connecting work instead.
Why is ast (is) at the very end of the sentence?
Farsi sentence structure almost always puts the main verb at the very end. While English says "That driver is very tired," Farsi arranges the words as "That driver very tired is."
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