Learn Farsi: دو پاک‌کن و یک مدادتراش اینجا هست. - Two erasers and one pencil sharpener are here.

In Farsi, whenever you use a number before a noun, the noun stays in its singular form. Since the number دو (two) already tells us there is more than one, Farsi doesn't require the plural ending ها. So we say دو پاک‌کن instead of دو پاک‌کن‌ها.

The sentence translates to "are here," but why does it use the singular verb هست (is)?

In Farsi, when the subject of a sentence is made up of non-human things (like erasers and pencil sharpeners), the verb is almost always singular. Even though there are multiple items, the non-human subject takes the singular verb هست rather than the plural هستند.

The words for eraser and pencil sharpener look quite long. Are they made up of smaller words?

Yes! Farsi loves compound words. پاک‌کن comes from پاک (clean) and the root for the verb to do or make, so it literally means cleaner. مدادتراش is made of مداد (pencil) and تراش (shave or carve), meaning pencil shaver. Breaking these words down makes them much easier to remember.

Does the word و (and) sound like "va" or "o" in this sentence?

While it is written as و and formally pronounced as "va", in everyday spoken Farsi it usually blends into the previous word and sounds just like "o". So, دو پاک‌کن و یک مدادتراش is typically pronounced "do pak-kon-o yek medad-tarash".