Breakdown of این مدیر موفق یک شغل ایدهآل دارد.
این
this
یکyek
one / a, an
داشتنdâshtan
to have
مدیرmodir
manager
شغلshoghl
job
ایدهآلide'âl
ideal
موفقmovaffaq
successful
Questions & Answers about این مدیر موفق یک شغل ایدهآل دارد.
Where are the Ezâfe vowels in this sentence?
There are two invisible Ezâfe sounds connecting nouns to their adjectives. We say modir-e movaffagh (successful manager) and shoghl-e ide'âl (ideal job). The -e sound links them together but isn't written in the standard Farsi script.
The word ایدهآل looks and sounds like a European word. Is it a loanword?
Yes, ide'âl is a loanword borrowed from French, and it means exactly the same as the English word ideal. Farsi has many French loanwords that are used in everyday vocabulary.
How would I change this to say 'I wish this successful manager had an ideal job', using the grammar from this lesson?
You would start with kâsh (I wish) and change the present tense verb dârad to the past tense dâsht. The sentence becomes: kâsh in modir-e movaffagh yek shoghl-e ide'âl dâsht. Remember that the verb dâshtan (to have) is special: it doesn't take the mi- prefix for the past continuous in these unreality structures, so we just use the simple past form dâsht.
Could I drop the word یک (yek) and just add the indefinite suffix -i to the noun?
Yes, you can! Instead of yek shoghl-e ide'âl, you could say shoghl-e ide'âli or even yek shoghl-e ide'âli. All three options mean an ideal job, though using just yek is very common in written Farsi.
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