Breakdown of ماشینم در تعمیرگاه است چون دیروز تصادف کردم.
است
is
ماشینmâshin
car
درdar
in
دیروزdirooz
yesterday
Questions & Answers about ماشینم در تعمیرگاه است چون دیروز تصادف کردم.
How do we use چون (because) to connect the two parts of this sentence?
چون works just like "because" in English. It sits right in the middle to connect the two clauses: "My car is in the repair shop" and "I had an accident yesterday". You don't need to change the word order of the second phrase at all; it just follows normally with its verb at the end (کردم).
Why is it ماشینم instead of just ماشین?
The -م attached to the end of ماشین (car) is a possessive suffix meaning "my". So, ماشینم is a compact way of saying "my car". You will see these small suffixes attached to nouns a lot in Farsi instead of using a separate word for "my", "your", or "his/her".
The translation says "I had an accident", but doesn't کردم mean "I did"?
Yes, exactly! Farsi uses a lot of "compound verbs" where a noun is paired with a basic verb like "to do" (کردن). Here, تصادف means "accident", so تصادف کردم literally translates to "I did an accident". You will often use "to do" in Farsi where English uses "to have" or "to make".
How is the word تعمیرگاه (repair shop) formed?
It is made of two parts: تعمیر means "repair", and the suffix گاه means "place". Farsi often uses گاه to create words for locations. For example, a "learning place" is a university (دانشگاه) and a "sports place" is a stadium or gym (ورزشگاه).