ده یاقوت از خاک استخراج شد.dah yâqut az khâk estekhrâj shod.
Ten rubies were extracted from the dirt.
Breakdown of ده یاقوت از خاک استخراج شد.
ازaz
from
دهdah
ten
خاکkhâk
dust / clay / soil
استخراج کردنestekhrâj kardan
to extract
Questions & Answers about ده یاقوت از خاک استخراج شد.
How does the passive voice work with the compound verb in this sentence?
To make a compound verb passive, you change the action part from kardan (to do/make) to shodan (to become). The dictionary verb for 'to extract' is estekhrāj kardan. By swapping in shod (the simple past of shodan), we get estekhrāj shod, which means 'was extracted'.
Why is yāghūt (ruby) not pluralized if there are ten of them?
In Farsi, whenever a noun comes directly after a number, it always stays in its singular form. That is why the sentence says dah yāghūt (literally 'ten ruby') instead of adding a plural ending like -hā.
Since 'ten rubies' is plural, why does the sentence use the singular verb shod instead of the plural shodand?
Farsi has a specific rule for inanimate objects (things that are not living humans or animals). When the subject is an inanimate object, the verb is almost always conjugated in the singular form, regardless of how many there are. Because rubies are objects, we use the singular shod.