Questions & Answers about آرامگاهی که ما تو محوطهی اون هستیم خیلی بزرگه.
The English translation says "whose courtyard", but I don't see a word for "whose" in the Farsi sentence. How does this work?
Farsi doesn't have a direct equivalent for the relative pronoun "whose". Instead, it uses که (that) and then adds a pronoun later in the clause to show possession. Literally, this sentence says: "The tomb that we are in its courtyard..." The word اون (it/that) is this required "resumptive" pronoun, referring back to the tomb.
Why is there an -i at the end of آرامگاهی? Doesn't that usually mean "a" tomb instead of "the" tomb?
While the -i suffix often means "a" or "an", here it is the "restrictive -i". It attaches to a noun right before که to single out the specific thing you are describing in the following clause. You can think of آرامگاهی که as meaning "the specific tomb that...".
Why is it تو محوطهی اون? Couldn't we just say تو اون محوطه?
No, because تو اون محوطه means "in that courtyard". We need to say "in its courtyard" (the courtyard of the tomb) to make the relative clause work. To do this, we use the ezafe to link courtyard to the pronoun: محوطهی اون (courtyard of it). The preposition تو (in) just sits in front of that whole phrase.
This relative clause grammar feels formal, but the words look colloquial. Is this how people actually speak?