Questions & Answers about این تیم بینقصتر از آن تیم بازی کرد.
Wait, بینقص means "flawless", which is an adjective. How does it mean "flawlessly" here?
This is a great example of using a bare adjective as an adverb. In Farsi, you often don't need a special suffix like "-ly" in English to turn an adjective into an adverb of manner. بینقص (flawless) just sits right before the verb بازی کرد (played) to describe how they played, automatically acting as "flawlessly".
Since it's acting as an adverb, how does it take the comparative ending ـتر (-tar)?
Because adverbs of manner in Farsi are often just bare adjectives, they follow the exact same rules for comparisons! You just add the comparative suffix ـتر (-tar) directly to بینقص to make بینقصتر. You are grammatically treating it just like an adjective, even though we translate it as the adverb "more flawlessly".
What is the literal breakdown of the word بینقص?
It is made of the prefix بیـ (without) and the noun نقص (flaw, defect, or imperfection). So it literally means "without flaw".
Why is the phrase از آن تیم (than that team) placed before the verb instead of at the end of the sentence?
Farsi is a Subject-Object-Verb language, so the verb بازی کرد (played) strongly prefers to sit at the very end of the sentence. The entire chunk comparing the teams, بینقصتر از آن تیم (more flawlessly than that team), naturally goes directly before the verb it modifies.