Word
آیا به کتابهای تاریخی علاقه داری؟
Meaning
Do you have an interest in historical books?
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of آیا به کتابهای تاریخی علاقه داری؟
کتابketâb
book
آیاâyâ
whether (question particle)
بهbe
to
داشتنdâshtan
to have
Questions & Answers about آیا به کتابهای تاریخی علاقه داری؟
How does the verb dâri here connect to the -dâr suffix we're learning?
dâri means "you have" and comes from the verb dâštan (to have). The -dâr suffix you are learning right now to make adjectives (like puldâr, "wealthy") is actually the present stem of this exact same verb! So a puldâr person literally "has money".
Why is the preposition be used before the books?
In English we say we have an interest "in" something, but Farsi uses the preposition be (to). The set phrase is be [something] alâqe dâštan, which literally translates as "to have interest to [something]".
Why does ketâb-hâ (books) have a -ye sound added to it?
That is the ezâfe linking the noun ketâb-hâ to the adjective târixi (historical). Because the plural suffix -hâ ends in a long vowel, the ezâfe is pronounced as -ye instead of just -e to make it easier to say.
I know târix means "history". How does the -i suffix at the end work?
Adding the suffix -i to a noun is one of the most common ways to create a related adjective in Farsi. Here, it turns the noun târix (history) into the adjective târixi (historical).