Word
آن بازیگر مغروره، اما خیلی خندهداره.
Meaning
That actor is arrogant, but very funny.
Part of speech
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Questions & Answers about آن بازیگر مغروره، اما خیلی خندهداره.
Why do مغرور and خندهدار both have an extra ـه at the end in this sentence?
That ـه is the colloquial Tehrani shortcut for است (is). Because both مغرور (arrogant) and خندهدار (funny) end in a consonant, the formal است shrinks down to just an "e" sound, which is written as ـه. So مغروره literally means "arrogant is".
How do I pronounce the final ـه in مغروره and خندهداره? Is it an "h" sound?
No, you don't pronounce the "h". When used as the reduced "is", the final ـه is pronounced simply as a short "e" sound (like the "e" in "pet"). You pronounce them as maghrure and khande-dare.
If I wanted to write this sentence formally, how would it change?
You would restore the full verb است. The sentence would be: آن بازیگر مغرور است، اما خیلی خندهدار است. The colloquial version used here just makes it flow faster in everyday spoken Farsi.
I know خنده means "laugh". How does خندهدار mean "funny"?