Breakdown of ما یک برنامهی جدید برای پروژه داریم.
ما
we
پروژهporozhe
project
جدیدjadid
new
یکyek
one / a, an
Questions & Answers about ما یک برنامهی جدید برای پروژه داریم.
I thought present tense verbs start with می. Why does داریم not have it?
داشتن (to have) is an important exception! Unlike most verbs in the present tense, it does not take the می (mi-) prefix. To say 'we have', you just use the present stem دار (dâr) plus the 'we' ending ـیم (-im), giving us داریم (dârim).
Why is there a ی attached to the end of برنامه?
That is the Ezafe, a little connecting sound that links a noun to its adjective. Because برنامه (plan) ends in a silent 'h' (which acts like a vowel here), we add a 'y' sound to connect it to جدید (new). So it becomes برنامهی جدید (barnâme-ye jadid).
Why is the verb داریم at the very end of the sentence?
In Farsi, the standard sentence structure is Subject-Object-Verb. The subject ما (we) comes first, all the details like یک برنامهی جدید برای پروژه (a new plan for the project) come in the middle, and the verb داریم (have) closes the sentence.
How do I pronounce the letter ژ in پروژه?
The letter ژ makes a 'zh' sound, exactly like the 's' in the English word 'measure' or 'vision'. پروژه is a loanword from French, which is why it sounds so similar to the English word 'project'.