Word
هر سیاره یک مدار دارد که در آن میچرخد.
Meaning
Every planet has an orbit in which it spins.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of هر سیاره یک مدار دارد که در آن میچرخد.
آن
that
یکyek
one / a, an
درdar
in
داشتنdâshtan
to have
Questions & Answers about هر سیاره یک مدار دارد که در آن میچرخد.
This lesson is about ân-ghadr ... ke ..., but I don't see ân-ghadr here. What is ke doing in this sentence?
While this lesson focuses on ke used in result clauses (so big that...), here ke is simply acting as a relative pronoun meaning 'which' or 'that'. It connects the two halves of the sentence to describe the orbit. Farsi uses ke for both purposes!
How exactly does ke dar ân mean 'in which'?
Farsi doesn't combine prepositions with 'which' the way English does (like 'in which' or 'with whom'). Instead, it starts the descriptive part with ke (that) and puts the preposition and a normal pronoun later. Literally, ke dar ân mi-charkhad translates to 'that in it it spins'.
Why is the noun sayyâre (planet) singular if we are talking about all planets?
The word har means 'each' or 'every'. Just like in English, har is always followed by a singular noun in Farsi. You will say har sayyâre (every planet), never the plural form.
Why does the verb mi-charkhad use the mi- prefix here?
The mi- prefix on a present stem shows either an ongoing action ('is spinning') or a regular, habitual fact ('spins'). Since planets spinning in an orbit is a permanent scientific truth, it functions as a habitual present tense here.