Questions & Answers about این دوست منظم است.
If the current lesson is about plural demonstratives like اینها, how would I say "These friends are organized"?
When placed directly before a noun, the word for "this/these" stays singular in Farsi! You keep این, make the noun plural (دوستان or دوستها), and use the plural verb (هستند). So it becomes این دوستان منظم هستند. You only use the plural demonstrative اینها (these) if you drop the noun, as in اینها منظم هستند (These are organized).
If I make the sentence plural, does the adjective منظم (organized) change?
No, it doesn't. Just like in English, Farsi adjectives don't change to match plural nouns. Whether it's one friend or many, منظم stays exactly the same.
I learned about the "ezâfe" (an invisible "e" linking words). Why isn't there one between دوست and منظم?
You only use the ezâfe when an adjective directly attaches to a noun to make a single phrase, like saying "an organized friend" (دوستِ منظم). But here, the sentence is "This friend is organized." Because منظم (organized) is the predicate describing the subject rather than a direct attachment, no ezâfe is needed here.
Why does the verb است (is) come at the very end?
Farsi has a Subject-Object-Verb word order, meaning the verb almost always anchors the end of the sentence. Here we have the subject (این دوست), then the describing word (), and finally the verb ().