Learn Farsi: جسد قربانی به حیاط جابه‌جا شده بود. - The victim's body had been moved to the yard.

The base compound verb for "to be moved" is جابه‌جا شدن. As taught in this lesson, we form the past perfect passive by taking the non-verbal part of the compound (جابه‌جا) and adding the past perfect form of the auxiliary verb شدن. Since the subject is the third-person singular جسد (body), we use شده بود. This gives us جابه‌جا شده بود (had been moved).

What is the literal translation of جابه‌جا?

The word جا means "place", and به means "to". So جابه‌جا literally means "place to place". When combined with the auxiliary verb to form a passive action, it means being shifted or relocated from one spot to another.

How do we link the words for "body" and "victim" when reading this out loud?

You link them using the ezafe vowel, which is an "e" sound added to the end of the first word. Even though it is not written in the Persian script here, you pronounce the phrase as jasad-e ghorbāni to mean "the body of the victim".

Why does به حیاط (to the yard) come before the verb instead of at the end of the sentence?

Persian is fundamentally a Subject-Object-Verb language, meaning the verb phrase (جابه‌جا شده بود) usually must anchor the very end of the sentence. Prepositional phrases expressing destination, like به حیاط, are typically placed after the subject and right before the verb.