Learn Farsi: بعد از هم زدن، سرآشپز مزه‌ی این مواد را می‌چشد. - After stirring, the head chef tastes the flavor of these ingredients.

بعد از هم زدن، سرآشپز مزه‌ی این مواد را می‌چشد.ba'd az ham zadan, sar-âshpaz maze-ye in mavâd râ mi-chashad.

After stirring, the head chef tastes the flavor of these ingredients.

Breakdown of بعد از هم زدن، سرآشپز مزه‌ی این مواد را می‌چشد.

این

this

راrâ

definite direct object marker

Questions & Answers about بعد از هم زدن، سرآشپز مزه‌ی این مواد را می‌چشد.

Why is the infinitive هم زدن (to stir) used here instead of a conjugated verb?

In Farsi, infinitive verbs act as nouns, much like English "-ing" words (gerunds). Coming right after the preposition بعد از (after), the infinitive هم زدن perfectly translates to the noun "stirring".

مواد (mavâd) is a plural word, so why do we use the singular این (in) instead of این‌ها (inhâ)?

When demonstrative adjectives like این (this/these) and آن (that/those) come directly before a noun, they always stay in their singular form. Because مواد (the Arabic broken plural of ماده) is already plural, این مواد correctly means "these ingredients". You only use این‌ها when the word stands completely alone as a pronoun.

Does the word سرآشپز (sar-âshpaz) follow a standard pattern for job titles?

Yes, combining سر (head/chief) with a profession is a common way to indicate the person in charge of a group. Here, سر is added to آشپز (cook) to mean "head chef".

The object being tasted is "the flavor", so why does the object marker را (râ) come after "these ingredients"?

را always attaches to the very end of the entire noun phrase that acts as the direct object. Since the chef is tasting مزه‌ی این مواد (the flavor of these ingredients) as one complete phrase linked together by the Ezafe (-ye), the را must wait until after مواد to close the phrase.