Question 1

I see both peymânkâr and ta'mirkâr end in -kâr. How does this suffix work?

Accepted Answer

The suffix -kâr turns a base word into a profession or an agent. Here, peymân means pact or contract, so a peymânkâr is a contractor. ta'mir means repair, making a ta'mirkâr a repairman.

Question 2

Why do these words use -kâr instead of the -gar suffix we learned for words like kârgar (worker)?

Accepted Answer

Both -kâr and -gar create agent nouns. While -gar often attaches to native Persian roots, -kâr is very frequently added to Arabic loanwords like ta'mir or certain abstract Persian nouns like peymân. There is no strict rule you can apply every time, so it is best to memorize the resulting profession as a set word.

Question 3

Is there a hidden Ezafe connecting the repairman to the word for new?

Accepted Answer

Yes! It is pronounced ta'mirkâr-e jadid. Even though you do not see it written in the Persian script here, the short Ezafe vowel -e is required to link the noun to its adjective jadid (new).

Question 4

We previously learned to use the suffix -i for indefinite nouns. Why is yek used here instead?

Accepted Answer

You can actually use either! To say a new repairman, you could say yek ta'mirkâr-e jadid, ta'mirkâr-e jadidi, or even combine them as yek ta'mirkâr-e jadidi. Using just yek before the noun is very common in modern spoken and written Farsi.

Question 5

How does the verb estekhdâm kard work?

Accepted Answer

This is a compound verb. estekhdâm means employment or recruitment, and kard is the simple past tense of to do (kardan). Literally, the contractor did employment of a new repairman.

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