Learn Farsi: به نظر می‌رسد که کارگردان مضطرب است.

به نظر می‌رسد که کارگردان مضطرب است.be nazar miresad ke kârgardân moztareb ast.

It seems that the director is anxious.

Breakdown of به نظر می‌رسد که کارگردان مضطرب است.

است

کهke

that (conjunction)

به نظر رسیدنbe nazar rasidan

to seem

کارگردانkârgardân

director

Questions & Answers about به نظر می‌رسد که کارگردان مضطرب است.

Literally, what does به نظر می‌رسد mean and how does it translate to "it seems"?

نظر means "opinion" or "sight", and می‌رسد is the present tense of رسیدن (to arrive). So literally, this phrase means "it arrives to sight" or "it arrives to opinion". Farsi uses this idiomatically to mean "it seems" or "it looks like".

How would I say "It seemed that..." to connect with our current lessons on the past tense?

You would change the present tense می‌رسد to the continuous past form می‌رسید (it was seeming / it seemed). To put the whole sentence in the past, you would say به نظر می‌رسید که کارگردان مضطرب بود (It seemed that the director was anxious). Because است (is) is a state of being, it simply changes to بود (was) rather than using the auxiliary داشت.

Why isn't there a subject pronoun like "it" before به نظر می‌رسد?

Farsi uses the verb ending to show the subject. Here, the verb می‌رسد ends in -د, which is the third-person singular (he/she/it) ending. For impersonal sentences like "it seems" or "it is raining", Farsi just builds the "it" into the verb ending rather than using a separate dummy pronoun.

Can I drop the word که (that) in this sentence, just like we often do in English?

Yes! Just like in English where you can say "It seems the director is anxious", you can drop the conjunction که in casual, spoken Farsi. However, keeping که is considered more standard and is very common in both writing and everyday speech.