Breakdown of رفت و آمد در این مسافت با اتوبوس خیلی طول میکشد.
خیلی
very / many (of)
این
this
درdar
in
باbâ
with
طول کشیدنtul keshidan
to take (time) / to last
اتوبوسotobus
bus
رفت و آمدraft o âmad
commuting
مسافتmasâfat
distance
Questions & Answers about رفت و آمد در این مسافت با اتوبوس خیلی طول میکشد.
The current lesson is about az ... tâ ... (from ... to). How could I use that structure in this sentence?
You could replace در این مسافت (in this distance) with specific locations to define the range. For example, you could say از اینجا تا مرکز شهر (from here to the city center). The phrase رفت و آمد از اینجا تا مرکز شهر means Commuting from here to the city center.
The word for commuting is رفت و آمد. Why does it look like two past-tense verbs?
Because it is! رفت (went) and آمد (came) are the past stems of the verbs for to go and to come. Joined by و (and), they form a compound noun meaning going and coming or commuting. Farsi often combines opposite verb stems to create new nouns.
What is the literal meaning of the verb طول میکشد?
It literally means pulls length. طول means length or duration, and کشیدن means to pull or to draw. In Farsi, you use this compound verb to say that an action or event takes time or lasts. Note that it is only used for time, not for measuring physical distance.
Why do we need the preposition در (in) before این مسافت (this distance)? English just says commuting this distance.
In Farsi, you often need a preposition to show the spatial context of the action. در این مسافت essentially translates to over this distance or within this distance. Leaving out در would make the sentence feel grammatically incomplete to a native speaker.
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