Word
این هدیه چهارده تومان است.
Meaning
This gift is fourteen Tomans.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of این هدیه چهارده تومان است.
این
this
بودنbudan
to be
هدیهhadiye
gift
تومانtumân
Toman (currency)
Questions & Answers about این هدیه چهارده تومان است.
Why is the currency Toman instead of Rial here?
While the official currency of Iran is the Rial, people almost always use تومان in everyday life. One Toman is equal to ten Rials.
Since fourteen is more than one, shouldn't the word for Toman have a plural ending?
In Farsi, whenever you use a number before a noun, the noun stays in its singular form. That is why we say چهارده تومان and do not add a plural ending to it.
How do Iranians usually pronounce the number fourteen here?
In formal written Farsi it is spelled چهارده (chahardah), but in everyday speech, native speakers almost always shorten the pronunciation to چارده (chardah).
How would a native speaker say the end of this sentence in a normal conversation?
In spoken Farsi, the verb است (is) usually attaches to the end of the word before it as an e sound. So instead of clearly pronouncing تومان است, people will say تومانه (tomane).