Learn Farsi: زیبایی فقط در جوانی نیست، در پیری هم هست. - Beauty is not only in youth, it is also in old age.

This lesson is about making abstract nouns by adding the suffix -i to an adjective. The adjective for "beautiful" is zibâ. Because zibâ ends in a vowel (â), we need a bridge consonant to connect it to the -i suffix. In Farsi, that bridge is -y-, giving us zibâyi (beauty).

Are javâni (youth) and piri (old age) made the exact same way?

Yes! The adjective javân means "young" and pir means "old". Because both of these end in a consonant, we don't need the bridge -y- that we used for zibâyi. We just add the -i suffix directly to get the abstract nouns javâni and piri.

Why does the sentence end with hast instead of the simpler "is" verb, ast?

While ast is a simple linking verb (like saying "the sky is blue"), hast focuses on existence ("there is" or "it exists"). When making a strong contrast—saying beauty isn't just in youth, it does exist in old age—Farsi speakers often use hast to emphasize that presence.

Where do we place ham (also/too) in a Farsi sentence?

The word ham usually comes right after the specific idea it is adding to or emphasizing. In this sentence, it comes immediately after (in old age) to mean "in old age " or " in old age".