Breakdown of من همان بومهایی را که دیدید میخواهم.
من
I
دیدنdidan
to see / to watch
راrâ
definite direct object marker
خواستنkhâstan
to want / to ask (request from someone)
کهke
that (conjunction)
همانhamân
that very / that same
بومboom
canvas
Questions & Answers about من همان بومهایی را که دیدید میخواهم.
Why is hamân singular when it translates to "those very" and describes the plural bum-hâ-yi (canvases)?
Just like regular demonstratives in Farsi (in and ân), the emphatic forms hamin and hamân do not take a plural marker when used as adjectives before a noun. You use the singular hamân even when the noun it describes is plural.
Why is there an -i at the end of bum-hâ-yi? Doesn't that usually mean "a/an" (indefinite)?
Normally, yes! But here it is acting as a "restrictive" marker. In Farsi, when a noun is followed by a ke (that/which) clause, we often add this -i to the noun to point forward to the description. It signals "the specific canvases that...".
Why is the object marker râ placed after bum-hâ-yi but before ke?
The marker râ comes at the very end of the noun phrase it applies to. The complete direct object here is hamân bum-hâ-yi (those very canvases). The ke clause that follows is just extra description, so râ sits right after the noun phrase to close it off before the relative clause begins.
What is the base word for "canvases" here, and how does the pronunciation work with the suffixes?
The base word is bum (canvas). To make it plural, we add -hâ to get bum-hâ. When we add the restrictive -i ending, a "y" sound naturally bridges the two vowels, so it is pronounced bum-hâ-yi.
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