Breakdown of باتری قدیمی گوشی تعمیر نمیشود.
گوشیgushi
phone
شدنshodan
to become
تعمیر کردنta'mir kardan
to repair
قدیمیqadimi
old (things)
Questions & Answers about باتری قدیمی گوشی تعمیر نمیشود.
Why do we use تعمیر نمیشود (ta'mir nemi-shavad) here instead of تعمیر نمیکند (ta'mir nemi-konad)?
This is a classic shodan vs. kardan pairing! Ta'mir shodan (to become repaired / get repaired) is the intransitive partner of ta'mir kardan (to do a repair / to repair something). If we used kardan, the sentence would literally mean the battery itself is refusing to repair something else. Because the battery is the thing receiving the action, we use shodan.
How do the words باتری (bātri), قدیمی (ghadimi), and گوشی (gūshi) link together in speech?
They are linked by the Ezafe vowel, creating the chain bātri-ye ghadimi-ye gūshi. Notice the word order: the adjective (ghadimi) comes right after the noun it describes (bātri), and then we attach the possessor (gūshi) at the end. It literally flows as "battery-of old-of phone".
Since we are talking about a specific phone battery, shouldn't there be a را (rā) after گوشی (gūshi)?
No, because rā is only used for specific direct objects. In English, it feels like the battery is having an action done to it, but grammatically in Farsi, the intransitive verb ta'mir shodan makes "the old phone battery" the subject of the sentence. Subjects never take rā.
The translation says "does not get repaired". Could this also mean "will not get repaired" in the future?