Word
دریلی که آن را قرض گرفتم، خراب است.
Meaning
The drill that I borrowed is broken.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of دریلی که آن را قرض گرفتم، خراب است.
است
is
آن
that
راrâ
definite direct object marker
کهke
that (conjunction)
Questions & Answers about دریلی که آن را قرض گرفتم، خراب است.
Why do we add ân râ when English just says "The drill that I borrowed"?
In Farsi, when the noun being described is the direct object of the relative clause, we have to refer back to it with a pronoun. Here, ân means "it" and râ marks it as the object. So Farsi literally says: "The drill that I borrowed it, is broken."
Can I use a pronoun suffix instead of the full words ân râ here?
Yes! Instead of the standalone pronoun ân and the object marker râ, you could use the object suffix -ash (meaning "it"). You would attach it to the noun part of the compound verb, making the phrase ke gharzash gereftam.
Why does deril have an -i at the end (derili)? Is it the word for "a"?
It looks exactly like the indefinite -i meaning "a", but here it is the "restrictive -i". It attaches to a noun right before ke to signal that we are about to specify exactly which drill we are talking about.
What is the literal meaning of gharz gereftam?
The word gharz means a debt or a loan, and gereftam means "I took". In Farsi, "taking a loan" is the standard compound verb used to express borrowing something.