Word
خودروی خودران نه تنها من را رساند، بلکه صبر کرد تا دوستم رسید.
Meaning
The autonomous vehicle not only dropped me off, but it also waited until my friend arrived.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of خودروی خودران نه تنها من را رساند، بلکه صبر کرد تا دوستم رسید.
من
I
دوستdust
friend
نهna
no
راrâ
definite direct object marker
Questions & Answers about خودروی خودران نه تنها من را رساند، بلکه صبر کرد تا دوستم رسید.
The lesson is about نه تنها ... بلکه ... هم, but there is no هم in this sentence. Is it optional?
Yes! The word هم (also) is frequently dropped in spoken and written Farsi when using the نه تنها ... بلکه (not only ... but) structure. It is especially common to drop it when the second part of the sentence introduces a whole new verbal action, like صبر کرد (waited), rather than just listing another noun. Here, بلکه by itself perfectly conveys "but it also".
How does the word خودران mean "autonomous" or "self-driving"?
It is a compound word made of two parts. خود means "self", and ران is the present root of the verb راندن (to drive). So خودران translates quite literally to "self-driving".
The verbs رساند and رسید look very similar. How are they related?
They belong to the same verb family! رسید comes from the base verb رسیدن (to arrive), which does not take a direct object. رساند comes from رساندن, which is the causative form of the verb, meaning "to make something arrive" or "to deliver/drop off". It takes a direct object, which is why we see من را (me) right before it.
I learned that تا (until/so that) usually takes the subjunctive. Why is رسید in the simple past tense here?