Breakdown of کاش تقریباً صد صندلی پر میشد.
صندلی
chair
صدsad
one hundred
کاشkâsh
I wish
تقریباًtaghriban
almost / approximately (nearly)
پر شدنpor shodan
to become full / fill up
پرpor
full
Questions & Answers about کاش تقریباً صد صندلی پر میشد.
Why does تقریباً end with those two small diagonal lines?
Those two lines are called a tanwin. It is a spelling feature borrowed from Arabic that adds an "an" sound to the end of the word. So, تقریباً is pronounced "taghriban". You will see this ending on several common adverbs in Farsi, like حتماً (hatman - certainly).
Can I place تقریباً after the noun, like saying "a hundred seats, approximately"?
No, in Farsi, تقریباً (almost / approximately) usually comes right before the number or quantity it modifies. So it must be ordered as تقریباً صد صندلی (approximately a hundred seats).
Since there are a hundred seats, why isn't صندلی pluralized as صندلیها?
In Farsi, nouns that come immediately after a number always stay in their singular form. Even though "a hundred" is plural in meaning, we always say صد صندلی (a hundred seat) rather than using the plural suffix.
Why is the verb پر میشد in the past continuous tense if the sentence is about wishing they "would fill up"?
The word کاش (I wish / if only) is used to express wishes. When you wish for something to happen right now or in the future but it is a hypothetical or unreal condition, Farsi uses the past continuous tense (می + past stem). It works a bit like how English uses a past-tense form for hypotheticals, such as saying "I wish it filled up".
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