Word
پناهگاهی که دیروز آن را دیدم، خیلی تمیز است.
Meaning
The shelter that I saw yesterday is very clean.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of پناهگاهی که دیروز آن را دیدم، خیلی تمیز است.
است
is
خیلی
very / many (of)
آن
that
تمیزtamiz
clean
Questions & Answers about پناهگاهی که دیروز آن را دیدم، خیلی تمیز است.
Why does پناهگاه (shelter) have an ی at the end if the English translation says "The shelter"? Doesn't ی usually mean "a"?
You are right that ی often means "a" (indefinite). However, when it comes right before که (that/which), it is known as the "restrictive ی". Instead of meaning "a shelter", it singles out a specific one: "the particular shelter that...". That is why it translates to "The" in English.
Why is آن را (it + object marker) in this sentence? English just says "that I saw", not "that I saw it."
This is a major difference between Farsi and English! In Farsi relative clauses, when the noun being described is the direct object of the action (you saw the shelter), you usually need a pronoun (like آن) plus را to refer back to it. Literally, Farsi is saying: "The shelter that yesterday I saw it, is very clean."
Could I just write دیروز را دیدم and drop the آن?
No, because را cannot stand alone; it must always follow a noun or pronoun. If you want to shorten the sentence, especially in casual speech, you could drop آن را entirely and just say پناهگاهی که دیروز دیدم (the shelter that I saw yesterday). But keeping آن را is grammatically precise.
This lesson is about conditionals like در صورتی که (provided that). Is there a conditional hidden here?