Learn Farsi: هواپیما خیلی بزرگ است.

هواپیما خیلی بزرگ است.havâpeymâ kheyli bozorg ast.

The airplane is very big.

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Questions & Answers about هواپیما خیلی بزرگ است.

I recognize havâ from words about weather. Does it mean the same thing in havâpeymâ?

Yes! havâ means "air" or "weather". The second part, -peymâ, comes from a verb meaning "to travel through" or "to traverse". So, an airplane in Farsi is literally an "air-traveler" or "air-traverser".

Would people actually say ast at the end of this sentence in everyday conversation?

In formal writing or on the news, yes. But in everyday spoken Farsi, native speakers almost always replace ast with a short -e sound attached to the previous word. A native speaker would casually say this sentence as havâpeymâ kheyli bozorg-e.

Is the word order for kheyli bozorg exactly the same as "very big" in English?

Yes, it is! When you want to emphasize a description, the word kheyli (very) goes immediately before the adjective it modifies, exactly like in English.