Breakdown of بعضی از پنیرها خیلی خوشمزه است.
است
is
خیلی
very / many (of)
ازaz
from
خوشمزهkhoshmaze
delicious
Questions & Answers about بعضی از پنیرها خیلی خوشمزه است.
Why do we use az after ba'zi in this sentence?
In Farsi, ba'zi az translates literally to "some from" or "some of". You use it before a plural noun to talk about a portion of a group. Here, ba'zi az panir-ha means "some of the cheeses".
Could we use an Ezafe instead of az here, like the lesson mentioned?
Yes! You could say ba'zi-ye panir-ha. Both ba'zi az and ba'zi-ye mean the same thing in everyday speech ("some of the cheeses" or "some cheeses"). Notice that because ba'zi ends in a vowel, the Ezafe connector is pronounced as -ye.
Why does "cheese" get the plural ending -ha here? I thought nouns stayed singular after quantities.
Nouns do stay singular after exact numbers (like "three"). But ba'zi is an indefinite pronoun, meaning it doesn't give a precise amount. When using ba'zi az (some of) or ba'zi-ye (some), the noun that follows must be plural, hence panir-ha.
"Cheeses" (panir-ha) is plural, so why does the sentence end with the singular verb ast (is) instead of hastand (are)?