Learn Farsi: برای گول زدن تماشاگر، کارت را در آستین خود پنهان کن! - To deceive the audience, hide the card in your sleeve!

barâ-ye means "for", and gul zadan is the full infinitive meaning "to deceive". In Farsi, to express the purpose of an action (like "in order to deceive"), you can use barâ-ye followed by the long infinitive. It literally translates to "for deceiving".

Is there an ezafe link between "deceive" and "audience"?

Yes! It is pronounced gul zadan-e tamâšâgar. When a long infinitive takes an object directly after it, they are linked with an invisible "e" sound called an ezafe. You can think of it literally as "the deceiving of the audience".

Why does the sentence use xod instead of the ending -at for "your sleeve"?

The word xod means "self" or "own". When the owner of the object is the same person doing the action, Farsi prefers to use xod instead of regular pronoun endings. Since you are the one being told to hide the card, "in your sleeve" is translated as dar âstin-e xod (in own sleeve).

How do we know this is a specific card being hidden?

The word râ right after kârt shows us that it is a specific direct object. It tells us the magician is hiding "the card" (the specific one they are doing the trick with), rather than just any random card.