Breakdown of پدرم جلوی تلویزیون است.
است
is
پدرpedar
father
تلویزیونtelevizyon
television
جلوjelo
in front of
Questions & Answers about پدرم جلوی تلویزیون است.
Why does jolo (front) get a -ye added to the end to make jolo-ye?
In Farsi, spatial words like jolo (front), ru (on), or zir (under) act a lot like regular nouns. To link them to the next word, we use the Ezafe connector (acting like the English word 'of'). Because jolo ends in a vowel sound, the Ezafe takes the form of -ye instead of just -e. So jolo-ye literally means 'the front of'.
How does pedaram translate to 'my father'?
The word for 'father' is pedar. To say 'my', Farsi attaches the possessive suffix -am directly to the end of the noun. So, pedar + -am becomes pedaram.
Why is the verb ast (is) at the very end of the sentence?
Farsi usually follows a Subject-Object-Verb word order. The subject is pedaram (my father), the location phrase is jolo-ye televizion (in front of the television), and the verb ast (is) completes the thought at the very end of the sentence.
The Farsi word televizion looks very similar to English. Is it a loanword?
Yes! Televizion is borrowed directly from French, which is why it sounds almost exactly like the English word 'television' but with a slightly more European pronunciation.