Breakdown of پسر کوچک هیچچیز در قلعه پنهان نمیکرد.
کوچکkuchak
small
پسرpesar
boy / son
درdar
in
هیچچیزhich chiz
nothing
پنهان کردنpenhân kardan
to hide
قلعهqal'e
castle
Questions & Answers about پسر کوچک هیچچیز در قلعه پنهان نمیکرد.
The lesson covers the affirmative prefix mi-. Why does this verb start with ne-mi-?
To make the Past Continuous negative, you just add the negative prefix ne- in front of the mi- prefix. So, mi-kard (was doing) becomes ne-mi-kard (was not doing).
The translation says "was hiding nothing", but the Farsi verb نمیکرد is negative. Is this a double negative?
Yes! In Farsi, whenever you use "none" words like هیچچیز (nothing) or هیچکس (nobody), the verb must be negative. So you literally say that the boy "wasn't hiding nothing."
Where is the "was" part of "was hiding"?
Farsi doesn't use a separate helper verb like "was" or "were" for the Past Continuous tense. The continuous "was doing" meaning is entirely created by the mi- (or ne-mi-) prefix attached to the past tense verb.
How do I connect پسر (boy) and کوچک (little) when speaking?
You link them using the ezafe (an unwritten "e" sound). Because کوچک (little) is an adjective describing پسر (boy), you must pronounce them together as pesar-e kuchek.
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