Questions & Answers about ماشین به سمت چپ میرود.
Can I use the other prepositions from this lesson, like be taraf-e, instead of be samt-e here?
Yes! You can absolutely say be taraf-e chap or be su-ye chap. All three mean "towards the left" or "in the left direction" and are completely interchangeable in this sentence.
Why is there a hidden 'e' sound at the end of samt?
That is the ezâfe. Compound prepositions made of a preposition plus a noun, like be and samt, always need the ezâfe vowel to link them to the following word. Here, it links the word for "direction" (samt) to "left" (chap).
The translation says "to the left." Wouldn't a simple be chap work instead of be samt-e chap?
You could just say be chap, but using be samt-e (which literally means "in the direction of" or "towards") is very natural and common in Farsi when you want to emphasize the physical direction of a moving object like a car.
What is the infinitive of the verb میرود (goes) again?
The infinitive is raftan (to go). The present stem is rav, so we add the prefix mi- for the present tense and the third-person ending -ad (for "it") to get mi-ravad. Depending on the context, it can translate as either "goes" or "is going".
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