Questions & Answers about همین اتاق خیلی کثیف است.
The lesson is about the word in (this), but the sentence uses hamin. What is the difference?
hamin is the emphatic form of in. While in just means "this", hamin means "this very", "this exact", or "this same". You use it when you want to strongly point out this specific thing and not another one.
The English translation says "This very room is very dirty." Are there two different Farsi words for "very" in the Farsi sentence?
Yes! The first "very" in English comes from the emphatic demonstrative hamin (this very / this exact). The second "very" is the Farsi word xeyli, which is used right before an adjective to mean "a lot" or "very".
Does hamin need an ezafe (the short "e" connecting sound) to connect to otâq (room)?
No, it doesn't. Just like the regular demonstratives in (this) and ân (that), the emphatic word hamin sits directly in front of the noun it points to without any connecting ezafe.
In everyday spoken Farsi, how does the verb ast (is) at the end usually sound?
In casual speech, the formal ast shrinks down to a short "e" sound attached to the word before it. Because kasif ends in a consonant, the end of the spoken sentence would sound like kasif-e instead of kasif ast.
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