Breakdown of خواهرم داره از بازار بادوم و هندونه میخره.
و
and
خواهرkhâhar
sister
ازaz
from
داشتنdâshtan
to have
Questions & Answers about خواهرم داره از بازار بادوم و هندونه میخره.
Why is "almond" spelled بادوم here instead of the standard بادام?
This showcases the colloquial Tehrani accent rule you are learning! When the long "a" sound (/ā/) comes directly before an "m" or "n", it changes to an "u" sound (/u/). So, the formal بادام (bādām) becomes the conversational بادوم (bādum).
How does the rule apply to هندونه? The formal word is هندوانه (hendavāneh), which seems to lose letters, not just change a vowel.
Good eye! First, the rule applies: the /ā/ before the "n" turns into /u/, making it هندوونه (hendavuneh). But in everyday, fast speech, Iranians tend to shorten words even further. That middle "v" sound gets swallowed up, leaving us with the much shorter and easier to say هندونه (henduneh).
Why didn't the /ā/ in بازار change to an /u/ sound?
The vowel shift from /ā/ to /u/ in colloquial Farsi only happens before the nasal consonants "n" and "m". Since the /ā/ in بازار (bāzār) is followed by an "r", it doesn't trigger the rule and stays exactly the same.
I see داره and میخره separated by most of the sentence. Is this the present continuous tense?