Learn Farsi: من همیشه نفس کشیدن را قبل از مبارزه کردن تمرین می‌کنم. - I always practice breathing before fighting.

من همیشه نفس کشیدن را قبل از مبارزه کردن تمرین می‌کنم.man hamishe nafas keshidan râ qabl az mobâreze kardan tamrin mikonam

I always practice breathing before fighting.

Breakdown of من همیشه نفس کشیدن را قبل از مبارزه کردن تمرین می‌کنم.

definite direct object marker

تمرین کردنtamrin kardan

to practice

Questions & Answers about من همیشه نفس کشیدن را قبل از مبارزه کردن تمرین می‌کنم.

How do we get the "-ing" words "breathing" and "fighting" from the Farsi verbs?

Farsi uses the long infinitive form of a verb to act as a verbal noun, just like "-ing" gerunds in English. The compound verbs نفس کشیدن (to breathe) and مبارزه کردن (to fight) are used in their full dictionary form to mean "breathing" and "fighting" in this sentence.

Why is the object marker را placed right after نفس کشیدن?

Because "breathing" is the direct object of the main verb (practice). Since the infinitive نفس کشیدن is acting as a noun here, it takes را just like any regular noun would when it is the specific thing receiving the action (I practice what? Breathing).

Why is the infinitive مبارزه کردن used after the preposition قبل از (before)?

Just like in English where we say "before fighting", Farsi uses the verbal noun (long infinitive) after prepositions to show that an action is the object of that preposition.

Why is the main verb تمرین می‌کنم (I practice) all the way at the end of the sentence?

This is a good reminder of the standard Subject-Object-Verb structure in Farsi. The subject is من (I), the direct object is نفس کشیدن را (breathing), followed by the time phrase قبل از مبارزه کردن (before fighting), and finally the conjugated verb تمرین می‌کنم closes the sentence.