Breakdown of آیا چون دوستت رفت غمگین هستی؟
دوستdust
friend
بودنbudan
to be
آیاâyâ
whether (question particle)
رفتنraftan
to go
Questions & Answers about آیا چون دوستت رفت غمگین هستی؟
Why is the "because" part (چون دوستت رفت) in the middle of the sentence instead of at the end?
In Farsi, a "because" clause introduced by چون can easily come before the main action or feeling it explains. While English says "Are you sad [because your friend left]?", Farsi naturally orders it as "[Question word] [because your friend left] [sad you are]?". You could also put the چون clause at the very end, but putting it earlier is very common and sounds natural.
Where is the word for "your" in دوستت?
The "your" is attached directly to the end of the noun as a suffix. The word for friend is دوست (dust). By adding the ending ـَت (-at), which is a possessive pronoun (a short word ending that shows ownership), it becomes دوستت (dust-at), meaning "your friend".
I thought رفت meant "he/she went". Why is it translated as "left" here?
You are right that رفت (raft) is the third-person past tense of "to go". In Farsi, saying someone "went" is the most common way to express that they "left" or departed a place. Context tells us that "your friend went" means "your friend left".
Why do we need both آیا at the beginning and هستی at the end?
هستی (hasti) is the verb meaning "you are". آیا (āyā) is a special question word placed at the start of a sentence to signal a yes/no question. While you could just ask the question using a rising tone of voice without آیا, adding it makes it crystal clear from the very first word that a question is being asked.