Breakdown of قند خون من بالا است و دکتر گفت که حدود ده کیلو وزن کم کنم.
من
I
دکتر
doctor
و
and
بودنbudan
to be
Questions & Answers about قند خون من بالا است و دکتر گفت که حدود ده کیلو وزن کم کنم.
Why is kam konam in the present subjunctive when the doctor's command happened in the past (goft)?
In Farsi reported commands, the main verb is in the tense it actually happened (here, the past tense goft for "said" or "told"), but the action being commanded is always put in the present subjunctive. You can think of it literally as "The doctor said that I should lose..."
The English translation says "the doctor told me", but there is no be man (to me) in the Farsi sentence. Is it hidden?
Yes, it is implied! Because the subjunctive verb kam konam ends with the first-person suffix -am (meaning "I lose"), it is completely obvious to a Farsi speaker that the doctor was talking to you. You can add be man before goft, but leaving it out sounds very natural and common.
How do you say "to lose weight" in Farsi, and why is it structured this way here?
The phrase is vazn kam kardan, which literally means "to make weight less." It is a compound verb. Here, the specific amount to lose (hodud-e dah kilu) is placed right before vazn, so the sequence reads as "about ten kilos weight that I make less."
How does the linking work in ghand-e khun-e man?