Breakdown of خوانندگان و نویسندگان اینجا بیمار نیستند.
و
and
بیمار
sick
اینجاinjâ
here
بودنbudan
to be
نویسندهnevisandeh
writer
خوانندهkhânande
singer
Questions & Answers about خوانندگان و نویسندگان اینجا بیمار نیستند.
Why do "singers" (خوانندگان) and "writers" (نویسندگان) end in -gân instead of just -ân?
Both base words, خواننده (singer) and نویسنده (writer), describe living people (animate nouns) and end with a "silent e" written with the letter ه. To make them plural, we drop that silent e and add -gân (گان) instead of the regular -ân (ان) to make the pronunciation flow better.
Is there a hidden sound connecting "writers" (نویسندگان) and "here" (اینجا)?
Yes! To say "the writers here" (literally "the writers of here"), Farsi uses a hidden connecting vowel called the ezafe. You pronounce it as nevisandegân-e injâ. Because نویسندگان ends in a consonant, the ezafe is just a short "e" sound and isn't written out as a separate letter in the Farsi alphabet.
Why is the verb نیستند (are not) at the very end of the sentence?
In Farsi, the main verb almost always goes at the very end of the sentence. The literal word order here is "Singers and writers [of] here sick are-not."
Why does the verb نیستند end with -nd (ـند)?
The ending -nd (ـند) is the verb suffix for "they". Because the subject is a plural group of people (the singers and writers), the verb must match. نیست means "he/she/it is not", but we need نیستند to say "they are not".
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