Questions & Answers about عینک مادر من آنجا است.
How do we link the three words together to mean 'my mother's glasses'?
Farsi strings them together using the Ezafe particle (the short 'e' sound) between each word. It links backwards compared to English, translating literally as 'glasses of mother of me'. So you pronounce it eynak-e mādar-e man.
The English translation says 'glasses ARE there', but the Farsi uses ast (is). Why?
In English, words like 'glasses' or 'pants' are plural because they have two parts. In Farsi, eynak is considered a single object (one pair of glasses), so it takes the singular verb ast (is).
I know this sentence uses the Ezafe particle to show possession, but I don't see it written in the Farsi text. Where is it?
The Ezafe is a short 'e' vowel sound added to the end of a word (like eynak-e), but it is almost never written in standard Farsi text. You just have to know it is there when linking nouns together!
Why is the word order ānjā ast instead of ast ānjā?
In Farsi, the verb almost always goes at the very end of the sentence. So the location ānjā (there) must come right before the verb ast (is).
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