Word
شخصی که شناسنامهاش اینجا است، ادعا میکند که کسی ساکش را دزدید.
Meaning
The person whose ID card is here claims that someone stole his bag.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
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Breakdown of شخصی که شناسنامهاش اینجا است، ادعا میکند که کسی ساکش را دزدید.
است
is
اینجاinjâ
here
راrâ
definite direct object marker
کهke
that (conjunction)
Questions & Answers about شخصی که شناسنامهاش اینجا است، ادعا میکند که کسی ساکش را دزدید.
How do we get 'whose ID card' from ke shenâs-nâme-ash?
Farsi does not have a single exact equivalent for the relative pronoun 'whose'. Instead, the language uses ke (meaning who or that) followed by the noun with a possessive ending. So, shakhsi ke shenâs-nâme-ash literally translates to 'the person who his ID card', which we naturally express in English as 'the person whose ID card'.
Why does shakhsi end with an -i if the translation says 'the person' instead of 'a person'?
This -i is not the indefinite article meaning 'a' or 'an'. It is a special suffix called the restrictive -i that points forward to a relative clause. It signals that we are about to specify exactly which person we mean. You will often see it attached to a noun right before ke.
The word ke is used twice in this sentence. Do they serve the same grammatical purpose?
No, they do different jobs. The first ke is a relative pronoun linking the noun shakhsi to its describing clause. The second ke is a conjunction introducing the content of the claim (translating as 'that'), exactly like in the English phrase 'claims that someone...'.
Why does the direct object marker râ come after sâkash and not right after the base noun sâk?
The word râ must always follow the entire direct object noun phrase. Because the possessive suffix -ash (meaning his or her) is an inseparable part of 'his bag', has to be placed at the very end of the complete word .