Breakdown of بعد از اینکه پلیس دزدها را دستگیر کرد، خبرنگارمان خبر را منتشر کرد.
خبرkhabar
news
راrâ
definite direct object marker
دزدdozd
thief
بعد ازba'd az
after (time)
پلیسpolis
police
اینکهin-ke
that (conjunction)
خبرنگارkhabarnegâr
reporter
منتشر کردنmontasher kardan
to publish
دستگیر کردنdastgir kardan
to arrest
Questions & Answers about بعد از اینکه پلیس دزدها را دستگیر کرد، خبرنگارمان خبر را منتشر کرد.
Why do we use بعد از اینکه (ba'd az inke) here instead of just بعد از (ba'd az)?
بعد از means "after" but must be followed by a noun (like "after dinner"). Because the phrase that follows is a full clause with a subject and a verb (پلیس... دستگیر کرد - "the police arrested..."), we must add اینکه to turn it into a conjunction. It literally translates to "after this that the police arrested...".
The current lesson covers perfect tenses with بعد از اینکه, but here we just have the simple past verb دستگیر کرد (dastgir kard). Is that allowed?
Yes! When telling a story where one past action happened sequentially after another, you can just use the simple past for both verbs. You could use the present perfect to strongly emphasize that the arrest was completed first, but using the simple past twice is very natural and common in everyday storytelling.
How does the word خبرنگارمان (khabar-negar-eman) break down into "our reporter"?
It is made of three parts: خبر (khabar) meaning "news", plus the suffix نگار (-negar) meaning "writer" or "recorder", which together make "reporter". Finally, the attached pronoun مان (-eman) is added to the end to mean "our".
Why does the object marker را (ra) appear twice in this sentence?
را marks a specific direct object. There are two separate actions in this sentence, each with its own specific object. The police arrested the specific thieves (دزدها را), and the reporter published the specific news of the arrest (خبر را).
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