Breakdown of آن مشکل اینجا اتفاق نیفتاد.
آن
that
اینجاinjâ
here
مشکلmoshkel
problem
اتفاق افتادنettefâq oftâdan
to happen
اتفاقettefâq
event, incident
Questions & Answers about آن مشکل اینجا اتفاق نیفتاد.
Why does the verb for "didn't happen" consist of two words, ettefāq neyoftād?
This is a compound verb. ettefāq means "event" or "occurrence," and the verb oftādan means "to fall." So in Farsi, to say something happened, you literally say an event fell. Here, it is negative: the event didn't fall.
The prefix for the negative past is usually na-. Why does it look like ney- in neyoftād?
When the verb stem starts with a vowel sound, like oftād (it fell), adding na- directly would be awkward to pronounce (na-oftād). To make it flow better, the prefix changes to ney-, giving us neyoftād.
Why doesn't the verb neyoftād have a personal ending?
In the simple past tense, the third-person singular ("he," "she," or "it") is the only form that takes no ending; it is just the plain past stem. Since the subject is ān moshkel ("that problem"), which acts as an "it," no ending is added.
What is the word order of this sentence?
Farsi puts the verb at the very end. The order here is Subject (ān moshkel, that problem) plus Place (injā, here) plus the Verb (ettefāq neyoftād, didn't happen).
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