Breakdown of کار من پول دادن به شما است.
من
I
است
is
شما
you (plural)
پولpul
money
بهbe
to
کارkâr
work
دادنdâdan
to give
Questions & Answers about کار من پول دادن به شما است.
Why does the sentence use the infinitive دادن ("to give") when the English translation says "giving"?
In Farsi, infinitives (verbs ending in -dan or -tan) also act as verbal nouns, similar to the "-ing" form in English. So, دادن translates to both "to give" and the noun form "giving".
How do I find the present stem for دادن?
Finding the past stem is easy: just drop the -an from the infinitive, leaving you with داد (dād). However, دادن is an irregular verb, so its present stem cannot be extracted by a simple rule. You just have to memorize that its present stem is ده (deh).
Why is the word است (is) at the very end of the sentence?
Farsi uses a Subject-Object-Verb word order. The verb "to be", like است, almost always goes at the very end of the sentence, after phrases like به شما (to you).
I know من means "I", so how does کار من mean "my job"?
This uses the ezafe (a connecting "e" sound). When you connect a noun to a pronoun using the ezafe, it shows possession. So کارِ من (kār-e man) literally means "job of me", which translates naturally to "my job".
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