Questions & Answers about پدر و مادر من برای مهمانی آشپزی میکنن.
Why does the verb end in -ن instead of -ند?
This reflects the colloquial Tehrani pronunciation. In formal written Farsi, the third-person plural ends in -ند (like میکنند). In everyday speech, the final د is dropped, leaving just -ن (میکنن). It is plural here because the subject is two people: father and mother.
Does the word for 'my' (من) apply to both the father and the mother?
Yes. When you have a list of nouns connected by 'and' (و), the Ezafe (the invisible 'e' sound linking words) and the possessive pronoun usually only attach to the very last noun in the list. So پدر و مادر من is the most natural way to say 'my father and mother'.
Why is the verb for 'cooking' split into two words (آشپزی میکنن)?
This is a compound verb, which is a very common structure in Farsi. آشپزی is the noun for 'cooking', and کردن is the verb 'to do'. Literally, they 'do cooking'.
How is the word 'and' (و) pronounced in an informal sentence like this?
Even though it is written as و (va), in conversational Farsi it is almost always pronounced as a quick o sound linked to the previous word. You will hear pedar-o mādar instead of pedar va mādar.