Breakdown of همهی فامیلها در رستوران جمع میشوند.
رستورانresturân
restaurant
درdar
in
همهhame
all, everyone
جمع شدنjam' shodan
to gather
فامیلfâmil
relative
Questions & Answers about همهی فامیلها در رستوران جمع میشوند.
Why is there a -ye (ی) at the end of hame (همه)?
This is the ezāfe connecting the word "all" to the noun that follows it. Because hame ends in a silent h (which makes an 'e' sound), we add -ye to link it. So hame-ye acts like "all of".
Does the noun following hame-ye always have to be plural?
Yes, when it is a countable noun! If you are saying "all the [things]", the noun needs a plural ending like -hā. This is different from numbers, which take singular nouns. Because "relative" is countable, we must say hame-ye fāmil-hā.
Doesn't fāmil mean "family"? Why is it translated as "relatives" here?
In conversational Farsi, fāmil is most often used to mean an individual extended family member, or a "relative". Therefore, the plural fāmil-hā means "relatives". If you want to talk about a single, nuclear family unit, the word khānevādeh is usually the better choice.
How do the verb parts in jam' mishavand work together?
This is a compound verb made of jam' (gathered or collected) and shodan (to become). mishavand is the present tense form for "they". So literally, the relatives "become gathered" in the restaurant.
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