Breakdown of دارم از بازار هندونه میخرم.
ازaz
from
داشتنdâshtan
to have
خریدنkharidan
to buy
بازارbâzâr
market
Questions & Answers about دارم از بازار هندونه میخرم.
The written word for watermelon is هندوانه. How does it become هندونه in this sentence?
This is the colloquial Tehrani accent in action! When the long a sound (ا) comes before a nasal consonant like ن (n), it changes to a u sound. So هندوانه (hendavane) first shifts to hendavune, and in everyday speech, the middle syllable gets dropped to make it simply هندونه (hendune).
Why doesn't the word بازار (bazar) change its a sounds to u sounds in spoken Farsi?
The colloquial rule of changing an a to a u only happens when the vowel comes directly before a nasal consonant, which in Farsi means either ن (n) or م (m). Because the long vowels in بازار are followed by ز (z) and ر (r), they keep their original a sound.
Why are the verbs دارم and میخرم split up by the rest of the sentence?
This is how the present continuous tense (I am currently doing something) works in Farsi. The helper verb دارم goes near the beginning of the phrase, and the main verb میخرم stays at the end of the sentence. They sandwich the object and the prepositional phrase (از بازار هندونه).
The English translation says a watermelon, but I do not see the word for a (یک). Why is that?