Breakdown of بیمارستان اینترنت ندارد.
بیمارستانbimârestân
hospital
داشتنdâshtan
to have
اینترنتinternet
internet
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Questions & Answers about بیمارستان اینترنت ندارد.
How is the negative verb nadârad formed?
To make the verb "to have" negative, we add the prefix na- to the verb. Here, the present stem is dâr and the ending is -ad (for he, she, or it). So, dârad (it has) simply becomes nadârad (it does not have).
Why does the English translation say "The hospital" when there is no word for "the" in the Farsi sentence?
Farsi does not have a specific word for "the". A plain noun like bimârestân can mean "hospital", "a hospital", or "the hospital" depending entirely on the context of the conversation.
Why is the verb nadârad at the very end of the sentence?
Unlike English, which usually uses a Subject-Verb-Object word order ("The hospital does not have internet"), Farsi is a Subject-Object-Verb language. The subject (bimârestân) comes first, the object (internet) comes next, and the verb (nadârad) goes at the very end.
Is the -estân in bimârestân the same as the ending in country names like Afghanistan?
Yes! The suffix -estân means "place of" or "land of" in Farsi. The word bimâr means "sick person" or "patient", so bimârestân literally translates to "place of the sick".