Question 1

Why are "wires" and "trash" written as سیما and آشغالا instead of using ها?

Accepted Answer

This is exactly what we are focusing on in this lesson! In colloquial spoken Tehrani, the plural suffix ها often shrinks to just ـا when attached to words ending in a consonant. So سیم (wire) becomes سیما instead of سیم‌ها, and آشغال (trash) becomes آشغالا instead of آشغال‌ها.

Question 2

Does Farsi pluralize the word for trash? In English, "trash" is uncountable.

Accepted Answer

Yes, this is a fun difference between the languages. While English treats "trash" or "garbage" as a singular, uncountable concept, Farsi speakers frequently use the plural form آشغال‌ها (or colloquially آشغالا) when referring to household garbage or physical pieces of trash.

Question 3

Why does همه have a ی attached to it at the beginning of the sentence?

Accepted Answer

It needs the linking vowel called the ezafe to connect "all" to the nouns that follow it, translating roughly to "all OF the wires". Because همه ends in a silent "h" that makes an "e" sound, we must add an explicit ی to carry that ezafe sound, making it همه‌ی.

Question 4

Why is there only one رو if there are two objects (wires and trash)?

Accepted Answer

رو is the colloquial spoken form of را, which marks specific direct objects. Because "the wires and the trash" are joined by "and" (و) to form one big grouped object, you only need to put a single رو at the very end of the whole phrase.

Question 5

What verb does بذار come from? It looks shorter than the standard imperative.

Accepted Answer

It comes from the verb گذاشتن (to put). The standard, formal command form is بگذار (begozar). However, in everyday spoken Farsi, the "g" sound is dropped to make it flow faster, resulting in the colloquial بذار (bezar).

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