Breakdown of من نمیخواهم ازدواج کنم.
من
I
خواستنkhâstan
to want / to ask (request from someone)
ازدواج کردنezdevâj kardan
to marry
ازدواجezdevâj
marriage
Questions & Answers about من نمیخواهم ازدواج کنم.
Why are both verbs in this sentence conjugated for "I"?
In English, you use an infinitive after "want" (I want to marry). In Farsi, you conjugate both verbs for the person doing the action. The sentence literally translates to "I do not want that I marry." That is why both نمیخواهم and کنم end with the "I" suffix ـم.
How do we make the verb "want" negative here?
To make a present tense verb negative, we attach the prefix نـ to the beginning of the word. When it comes right before the می prefix, it is pronounced "ne", which gives us نمیخواهم (nemi-khâham).
We learned that the subjunctive usually takes the prefix بـ (be-). Why is it missing from ازدواج کنم?
ازدواج کردن (to marry) is a compound verb made of the noun ازدواج (marriage) and the helper verb کردن (to do). When a compound verb uses کردن in the subjunctive, the بـ (be-) prefix is almost always dropped. So, we simply say ازدواج کنم instead of ازدواج بکنم.
What does ازدواج کنم literally mean?
It translates literally to "I do marriage." The word ازدواج is a noun meaning "marriage," and کنم is the present subjunctive form of کردن (to do) for the "I" subject.