Questions & Answers about کار من ساعت هفت و نیم صبح است.
How do we say "half past" a certain hour in Farsi?
In Farsi, you use the word و (and) followed by نیم (half). So, هفت و نیم literally means "seven and a half", which we understand as "half past seven".
Where is the word for "at" in "at half past seven"?
Farsi doesn't typically use a preposition like "at" for telling the time. You just say ساعت (clock/hour) followed by the number. So ساعت هفت simply acts as "at seven o'clock".
How does the word صبح (morning) connect to the time?
To specify AM or PM, you link the time to the part of the day using the invisible "ezafe" grammatical link (pronounced as an "e" sound). Here, هفت و نیم صبح is pronounced "haft o nim-e sobh" and literally means "seven and a half of the morning".
Why does کار من mean "my work" instead of "work I"?
In Farsi, possession is shown by putting the noun first, followed by the possessor, linked by the same "ezafe" sound. So کار من is pronounced "kâr-e man" and translates directly to "work of me".
Why is the word است (is) at the very end of the sentence?
Farsi generally follows a Subject-Object-Verb word order. This means that the verb, such as است (is), almost always goes at the very end of the sentence.