Breakdown of بعد از اینکه قهوه سرد میشود، آسیاب میشود.
قهوهghahve
coffee
سردsard
cold
شدنshodan
to become
بعد ازba'd az
after (time)
Questions & Answers about بعد از اینکه قهوه سرد میشود، آسیاب میشود.
Why is میشود used twice in this sentence, and does it mean the same thing both times?
The word میشود generally means 'becomes' or 'gets', but it plays two slightly different roles here. In سرد میشود, it is the main verb showing a change of state: the coffee becomes cold. In آسیاب میشود, it acts as a helper verb to form the present passive voice, changing the active idea of grinding into 'is ground'.
The lesson says the passive voice uses a past participle. Why doesn't آسیاب میشود use one?
For simple verbs, the passive is indeed built with a past participle plus a form of شدن. However, the verb 'to grind' is a compound verb in Farsi: آسیاب کردن. To make these compound verbs passive, Farsi skips the past participle entirely and simply replaces کردن (to do) with شدن (to become).
Why do we use اینکه after بعد از?
You use بعد از (after) by itself when it is followed by a simple noun, like saying 'after the movie'. But when you are connecting it to a full phrase with its own verb, like 'the coffee becomes cold', you must add اینکه (literally meaning 'this that') to link the two parts of the sentence together properly.
Where is the word for 'it' in the second half of the sentence?
Subject pronouns are often dropped in Farsi when the context makes them obvious. Since the coffee is already the clear subject of the first part of the sentence, it is perfectly natural to leave out the word for 'it' right before آسیاب میشود.