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Questions & Answers about شما فیلم میبینید.
Why is the word for movie in the middle of the sentence?
In Farsi, the standard sentence structure is Subject-Object-Verb. Here, the subject شما comes first, followed by the object فیلم, and the verb میبینید goes at the very end. This is different from English, which puts the verb before the object.
I see the word for movie, but where is the word for 'a' in this sentence?
Farsi often does not use a separate word for 'a' or 'an' when talking about a general object. Just saying فیلم is perfectly fine to mean 'a movie' in this context.
What is the purpose of the می attached to the front of the verb?
The prefix می tells us that the verb is in the present tense. It can mean either a general habit like 'you watch' or an action happening right now like 'you are watching'.
How does the verb ending match the subject here?
Verbs in Farsi always take a specific ending based on who is doing the action. Because the subject is شما (which means 'you'), the verb میبینید takes the matching suffix ـید.