Questions & Answers about دارو از قهوه تلختر است.
How do we change "bitter" into "more bitter"?
You add the suffix -tar (تر) to the end of the adjective. Here, the base adjective تلخ (bitter) becomes تلختر (more bitter). It works just like adding "-er" in English!
I learned that از means "from". Why is it used here?
You are right, از normally means "from". However, in comparative sentences, Farsi uses از to mean "than". So literally, this sentence is structured as "Medicine from coffee more bitter is."
Why are the words in this specific order?
The word order for comparisons in Farsi is usually "Item A + az + Item B + comparative adjective + verb". Just like in basic sentences, the verb است (is) goes at the very end, and the adjective تلختر goes right before it.
The English translation says "The medicine" and "the coffee", but there is no word for "the" in Farsi. Why?
Farsi does not have a direct equivalent for the definite article "the". Bare nouns like دارو (medicine) and قهوه (coffee) can mean "a medicine", "the medicine", or just "medicine in general", depending entirely on the context.
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