Breakdown of ما برای سفر دنبال جایی خاص میگردیم.
ما
we
سفرsafar
trip
برایbarâye
for
گشتنgashtan
to search
جاییjâyi
somewhere
دنبالdonbâl
after / looking for
خاصkhâss
special
Questions & Answers about ما برای سفر دنبال جایی خاص میگردیم.
How do we get "somewhere" from jâyi?
The word jâ means "place". By adding the indefinite suffix -i, we get jâyi, which literally means "a place" but is used as the indefinite pronoun "somewhere". This works just like kasi (someone) and chizi (something).
Do we need an ezafe between jâyi and khâs to say "somewhere special"?
Yes! To describe "somewhere" with an adjective, you connect them with the ezafe just like regular nouns. Because jâyi ends in a vowel sound, the invisible ezafe acts as a "ye" sound connecting them, giving us jâyi-ye khâs.
Why are both donbâl and میگردیم used to mean "looking for"?
In Farsi, "to look for" is usually expressed with the compound verb donbâl-e ... gashtan. The word donbâl means "following" or "track", and gashtan means "to search" or "to wander". Here, میگردیم (mi-gardim) is the present tense "we" form of gashtan.
How does donbâl connect to the rest of the sentence?
It connects to the thing being searched for using an invisible ezafe. Even though it is not written, you must pronounce an "e" sound at the end of donbâl to link it to jâyi, sounding like donbâl-e jâyi.
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