Questions & Answers about امروز مریضم.
In this lesson we are learning impersonal phrases like sard-am ast (I am cold). Why doesn't this sentence use that structure?
Being sick (mariz) is treated as a direct state of being rather than a sensation that 'happens' to you. While you use the impersonal structure for physical sensations like being cold or hungry, for sickness you just use the regular 'to be' verb: mariz (sick) + -am (I am).
So is the -am on marizam different from the -am in sard-am ast?
Yes, exactly! In sard-am ast, the -am is an enclitic pronoun meaning 'to me'. But here in marizam, the -am is a shortened verb meaning 'I am' (short for hastam). They look exactly the same but do entirely different jobs in the sentence.
Since there is no man (I) in the sentence, how do we know who is sick?
The verb ending -am on marizam already tells us the subject is 'I'. Just like you learned in earlier lessons, Farsi usually drops subject pronouns like man unless you need to specifically emphasize who you are talking about.
Could I change the word order and say marizam emruz?
It is much better to keep emruz at the beginning. In Farsi, time words like emruz (today) usually go at the start of the sentence, while the verb (or the word carrying the verb ending, like marizam) must go at the very end.
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