Question 1

How does the lexical passive work in this sentence with farib khordan?

Accepted Answer

The noun farib means "deception." While the active compound verb is farib dâdan (to deceive / to give deception), replacing dâdan with khordan (to eat / to suffer) makes it passive. Therefore, farib khordan literally translates to "eating deception," which means "to be deceived" or "to fall for" a trick.

Question 2

Why is the object marker رو (ro) placed after کلاهبرداری (kolâh-bardâri) instead of earlier?

Accepted Answer

In Farsi, the non-verbal part of a compound verb (here, farib) can link to other nouns using an invisible ezafe vowel. The sentence literally says the user ate the farib-e in kolâh-bardâri (the deception of this scam). Because this entire connected phrase acts as the specific thing being "eaten," the object marker ro must go at the very end of the entire noun chunk.

Question 3

If the meaning is passive ("was deceived"), why does the sentence use the direct object marker رو (ro)? Don't passives usually drop the direct object?

Accepted Answer

That is the tricky part about lexical passives! Even though the English translation "was deceived" is passive, the literal Farsi sentence structure remains grammatically active: the user actively "ate" (experienced) the deception. Because the user is doing the "eating" of a specific thing (the deception of this scam), that specific thing still requires the direct object marker ro.

Question 4

The word for scam is کلاهبرداری (kolâh-bardâri). Where does this word come from?

Accepted Answer

It is a colorful compound noun that literally means "hat-taking." It is made from kolâh (hat) and bardâri (taking / lifting, from the verb bardâshtan). In Farsi idiom, "taking someone's hat" means to swindle, scam, or defraud them.

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