Breakdown of قهوه با شکر مخلوط میشود.
قهوهghahve
coffee
باbâ
with
شکرshekar
sugar
مخلوط کردنmakhlut kardan
to mix
Questions & Answers about قهوه با شکر مخلوط میشود.
How do we form the passive voice for compound verbs like "to mix" in this sentence?
The active verb for "to mix" is the compound verb مخلوط کردن (makhloot kardan). To make a compound verb passive in Farsi, you simply keep the first part (مخلوط) and replace the active auxiliary کردن (to do/make) with the passive auxiliary شدن (to become).
The lesson says the passive uses a "past participle + shodan", but I don't see a standard Persian past participle here. Why?
Great catch! For regular simple verbs, you form a past participle by adding an "-e" sound to the past stem (like نوشته for "written"). However, مخلوط already means "mixed". Because it is a compound verb, the non-verbal part (مخلوط) acts as the participle itself, so you don't add the standard past participle ending.
Why are we using میشود (mishavad) here instead of another conjugation?
We use میشود because the sentence is describing a present, ongoing, or general action, and the subject is قهوه (coffee). Since coffee is a third-person singular noun ("it"), we conjugate شدن into its present third-person singular form: the prefix میـ (mi-) + the present stem شو (shav) + the ending ـَد (-ad).
I've seen the word شکر translated as "thanks" before. How do I know it means "sugar" here?