Breakdown of فشارم افتاد و سردم شد.
و
and
سردsard
cold
شدنshodan
to become
افتادنoftâdan
to fall
فشارfeshâr
pressure
Questions & Answers about فشارم افتاد و سردم شد.
Why is it sard-am shod instead of using the word man (I)?
In Farsi, physical states like feeling cold, hot, or hungry are expressed as impersonal verbs. Instead of saying I became cold, Farsi essentially says cold to me became. The feeling (sard) takes the pronoun ending (-am for me) and the verb is fixed in the 3rd person singular or it form (shod).
The lesson examples used ast like in sard-am ast. Why use shod here?
sard-am ast describes a current state, meaning I am cold. Because the speaker is describing a past event where their state changed, they use shod, which is the past tense of to become. So sard-am shod means I got cold or I started feeling cold.
Does feshâr always mean blood pressure?
Literally, feshâr just means pressure (like water pressure or physical stress). But in a medical or bodily context, especially when it drops (oftâd) or goes up, it is the standard way to say blood pressure. Adding the -am enclitic makes it my blood pressure.
Why does the first verb, oftâd, not have an I ending if the sentence is about me?
The subject of the first half of the sentence is not you, it is your blood pressure (feshâr-am). Since pressure is a singular thing (it), the verb oftâdan (to drop or fall) must be in the third-person singular form, which is oftâd (it dropped).
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