Word
راهنما درباره همان پرترهها توضیح داد.
Meaning
The guide explained about those very portraits.
Part of speech
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Pronunciation
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Breakdown of راهنما درباره همان پرترهها توضیح داد.
توضیح دادنtowzih dâdan
to explain
راهنماrâhnamâ
guide
دربارهdarbâre
about / concerning
همانhamân
that very / that same
Questions & Answers about راهنما درباره همان پرترهها توضیح داد.
Why doesn't hamân have a plural ending when it translates to 'those very'?
In Farsi, demonstrative adjectives like hamân (that very / those very) and hamin (this very / these very) never take a plural marker when they come before a noun. The plurality is shown only by the noun itself, which is why we say hamân portreh-hâ.
Would the sentence change if we just said 'explained about those very ones' without saying 'portraits'?
Yes. If you drop the noun portreh-hâ, then hamân acts as a pronoun instead of an adjective. As a pronoun, it must take a plural marker to match the missing plural noun, so it would become hamân-hâ.
Does the word darbâreh (about) need an ezafe to connect to hamân?
Yes, it does. Compound prepositions like darbâreh require an ezafe to link them to the following word. Because darbâreh ends in a silent 'h', the ezafe is pronounced as a 'ye' sound, making it darbâreh-ye hamân.
Why does the verb for 'explained' use dâd (gave)?
The verb is tozih dâdan, which is a compound verb literally meaning 'to give explanation'. Farsi frequently pairs nouns like tozih (explanation) with simple verbs like dâdan (to give) to create full verbs.