Breakdown of چون او استرس داشت، دربارهی مصاحبه صحبت نکرد.
او
he/she
داشتنdâshtan
to have
صحبت کردنsohbat kardan
to speak / to talk
چونchon
because
دربارهdarbâre
about / concerning
مصاحبهmosâhebe
interview
استرسesteres
stress
Questions & Answers about چون او استرس داشت، دربارهی مصاحبه صحبت نکرد.
This lesson is about pas and banâbarin (so/therefore), but this sentence uses chon (because). How would we rewrite it using pas?
Chon focuses on the cause, putting 'because' at the beginning. To use a resultative word like pas (so), you swap the order: ou estres dâsht, pas darbâre-ye mosâhebe sohbat nakard (he had stress, so he didn't talk about the interview).
Why does the Farsi use dâsht (had) when the English translation says he 'was' stressed?
In Farsi, you generally don't 'be' stressed, you 'have' stress. The phrase is estres dâshtan (to have stress). Since the sentence is in the past tense, it becomes estres dâsht (he/she had stress).
Why is there a -ye sound at the end of darbâre (about)?
The word darbâre requires the ezafe to connect it to the following noun, mosâhebe (interview). Because darbâre ends in a vowel sound (the silent 'h' / 'e'), the ezafe takes the form of -ye instead of just -e to make it easier to pronounce.
How is the negative verb sohbat nakard (didn't talk) formed here?
Sohbat kardan (to talk) is a compound verb made of the noun sohbat (conversation) and the verb kardan (to do). To make it negative in the simple past tense, you simply add the negative prefix na- to the past stem of the verb, changing kard (did) to nakard (didn't do).
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