Breakdown of خانهی بدون برق و بخاری خیلی سرد است.
است
is
و
and
خیلی
very / many (of)
خانه
house
سردsard
cold
بدونbedun-e
without
برقbarq
electricity
بخاریbokhâri
heater
Questions & Answers about خانهی بدون برق و بخاری خیلی سرد است.
Why do we say bedun-e instead of just bedun?
bedun means without. In Farsi, when a preposition of exclusion like this is followed by a noun, they are joined by the ezafe vowel sound (-e). So it becomes bedun-e bargh (without electricity).
Why is there a -ye attached to khaneh (house) to make khaneh-ye?
The phrase "without electricity" acts as a description for the house. In Farsi, you link a noun to its description using an ezafe. Because khaneh ends in a silent "h", the ezafe is written as a ی and pronounced as -ye.
Does the word bedun-e apply to both electricity and the heater?
Yes, just like in English! When you use و (and) to join two things, the preposition covers both. It means without electricity and without a heater, so you don't need to repeat the word bedun-e.
Why doesn't the Farsi sentence have a word for "a" like in the English translation "A house"?
In Farsi, a singular noun without any extra markers can be used to talk about things in general. khaneh here refers to any house of this type. While English requires saying "a house" or "houses", Farsi simply uses the plain noun.
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