Questions & Answers about این روستا در گذشته آباد بود، اما دیگر آباد نیست.
How do we get the meaning "no longer" from دیگر and نیست in this sentence?
By itself, دیگر means "other", "another", or "more". When you pair it with a negative verb—in this case, نیست (is not)—the combination creates the meaning "no longer" or "not anymore". So, دیگر آباد نیست basically means "anymore thriving is not", which we translate as "it is no longer thriving".
The word آباد is translated as "thriving". Is this a common word for describing places?
Yes! آباد is heavily used in Farsi to describe a place that is developed, prosperous, inhabited, or well-maintained. You will even see it as a suffix in many city names across the region, like Islamabad or Khorramabad, which implies they are thriving or built-up places.
Where should دیگر be placed in the sentence?
Adverbs like دیگر are quite flexible in Farsi word order. Here, it sits right after the conjunction اما (but) and before the adjective آباد. You will generally place it before the main description that has changed, but as long as it comes before the negative verb, the sentence will make perfect sense.
Why doesn't the second half of the sentence repeat the subject "this village"?
In Farsi, once the subject (این روستا) is clearly established in the first part of the sentence, it is usually dropped in the second part to sound more natural and avoid repetition. The verb نیست (it is not) already tells us we are still talking about a singular "it" (the village).