Word
بیایید دربارهی واردات لبنیاتمان صحبت کنیم.
Meaning
Let's talk about the imports of our dairy products.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
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Breakdown of بیایید دربارهی واردات لبنیاتمان صحبت کنیم.
آمدنâmadan
to come
صحبت کردنsohbat kardan
to speak / to talk
دربارهdarbâre
about / concerning
وارداتvâredât
Questions & Answers about بیایید دربارهی واردات لبنیاتمان صحبت کنیم.
Why do both vâredât (imports) and labaniyât (dairy products) end in -ât (ات)?
The -ât suffix creates formal plurals or collective categories, especially for words of Arabic origin. Here, vâredât is the plural of vâred (imported), meaning "imports". Labaniyât comes from an Arabic root for milk and functions as a collective category for "dairy products".
Why does the sentence start with biâid (بیایید) when the main action is "talking"?
Biâid literally means "you (plural/formal) come", but it is commonly used at the start of a sentence as a fixed phrase meaning "Let's". To say "Let's do something" in Farsi, you use biâid followed by the main verb in its subjunctive form—which is why we see sohbat konim (that we talk) at the end.
Why is there a ye (ی) at the end of darbâre (درباره)?
This is the ezâfe linking vowel. It connects the preposition darbâre (about) to the noun that follows it. Because darbâre ends in a silent 'h' (ه), the linking vowel is written as a ye (ی) to bridge the vowel sounds, making it darbâre-ye.
Is there also an ezâfe between "imports" and "dairy"?
Yes! It is pronounced as vâredât-e labaniyât (imports of dairy products). The short 'e' sound links the two nouns to show the relationship between them, even though this short vowel is not explicitly written out in the Persian script.