Breakdown of هیچکس اشک بچهی گریان را پاک نکرد.
بچهbacheh
child
راrâ
definite direct object marker
هیچکسhichkas
nobody
پاک کردنpâk kardan
to clean / to delete / to erase
Questions & Answers about هیچکس اشک بچهی گریان را پاک نکرد.
How is the word geryân formed, and what is its role in this sentence?
geryân means weeping or crying. It is a present participle made by taking the present stem of the verb geristan (to cry), which is gery-, and adding the suffix -ân. In this sentence, it acts as an adjective modifying bache (child), linked by the ezāfe (bache-ye geryân).
Why does the direct object marker râ come all the way after geryân?
râ must follow the entire noun phrase that makes up the specific direct object. The object here isn't just tears, but the tears of the weeping child (ashk-e bache-ye geryân). Therefore, râ anchors to the very end of that connected chain of words.
Why is the verb nakard negative if the sentence starts with hich-kas (nobody)?
Farsi uses double negatives. Whenever you use a negative pronoun like hich-kas (nobody) or hich-chiz (nothing), the verb must also be made negative. So literally, this sentence says Nobody didn't wipe.
The English translation says tears, but ashk is singular. Why isn't it pluralized?
In Farsi, certain nouns like ashk (tear) and mu (hair) are commonly used in their singular form to represent a collective mass or plural meaning. You don't need to add a plural suffix like -hâ here.