Breakdown of کاغذ به وسیلهی یک دستگاه سنگین فشرده میشود.
سنگینsangin
heavy
کاغذkâghaz
paper
یکyek
one / a, an
بهbe
to
Questions & Answers about کاغذ به وسیلهی یک دستگاه سنگین فشرده میشود.
Why does this sentence use be vasile-ye instead of tavassot-e for 'by'?
While both can mean 'by', be vasile-ye literally means 'by means of' or 'via the instrument of'. It is the most natural choice here because a machine (dastgah) is an inanimate tool. tavassot-e is often preferred when the agent doing the action is a person, group, or active organization.
How exactly is the passive verb feshordeh mishavad formed?
In Farsi, the passive voice is built by taking the past participle of the main verb and adding a conjugated form of shodan (to become). Here, we have feshordeh (the past participle of feshordan, meaning 'to compress') plus the present tense mishavad (it becomes). Literally, the paper 'becomes compressed'.
Notice the -ye on be vasile-ye. Why is it there?
be vasile is a compound preposition, and it needs an Ezafe to connect it to the noun phrase that follows. Because vasile ends in a silent 'h' (which makes an 'eh' sound), the Ezafe takes the form of a 'ye' sound and is explicitly written out as -ye in the text.
How do dastgah (machine) and sangin (heavy) connect to each other?
They are connected by an unseen Ezafe, making the pronunciation yek dastgah-e sangin. Even though you do not see a special linking character written between them in the standard Farsi text, the Ezafe (-e) is required to link a noun to its describing adjective.