Word
بطریهای پلاستیکی توسط کارخانه بازیافت میشوند.
Meaning
The plastic bottles are recycled by the factory.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of بطریهای پلاستیکی توسط کارخانه بازیافت میشوند.
شدنshodan
to become
پلاستیکpelâstik
plastic
کارخانهkârkhâne
factory
بطریbotri
bottle
Questions & Answers about بطریهای پلاستیکی توسط کارخانه بازیافت میشوند.
Why do we use tavassot-e here instead of just az to say 'by the factory'?
In English, we use the word 'by' for many things, but in Farsi, you cannot use az (from) to introduce the doer of a passive action. To say who or what is performing the action in a passive sentence, you must use specific agent markers like tavassot-e (by/via) or be vasile-ye (by means of).
The subject botri-ha-ye pelastiki refers to non-human objects. Can I use a singular verb here?
Yes. In everyday spoken Farsi, non-human plurals often take a singular verb, so you might hear bazyaft mishavad. However, in written or slightly formal contexts, matching the plural subject with the plural verb mishavand is grammatically correct and very common.
How is the word bazyaft (recycle) formed?
It is a combination of baz (again or back) and yaft (the past stem of finding or getting). Literally, it means 'found again' or 'recovered'. When combined with the helping verb shodan, it forms the passive verb bazyaft shodan (to be recycled).
If bazyaft mishavand is passive, what would the active verb 'they recycle' look like?
The active version uses the helping verb kardan (to do) instead of shodan (to become). So 'they recycle' is bazyaft mikonand. If you reworded the sentence to make the factory the active subject instead of a passive agent, the verb would be singular: karkhane bazyaft mikonad (the factory recycles).