Word
اگر دروغگو نبودم، آرزوی تو را برآورده میکردم.
Meaning
If I were not a liar, I would fulfill your wish.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of اگر دروغگو نبودم، آرزوی تو را برآورده میکردم.
تو
you (singular)
بودنbudan
to be
راrâ
definite direct object marker
اگرagar
if
Questions & Answers about اگر دروغگو نبودم، آرزوی تو را برآورده میکردم.
Why is the second part of the sentence میکردم (mi-kardam), which is the past continuous, when the English translation says 'would fulfill'?
In Farsi second conditionals (unreal situations in the present), the 'would' part of the sentence is expressed using the past continuous tense. So while برآورده میکردم literally means 'I was fulfilling', in this conditional structure it translates to 'I would fulfill'.
Why does the 'if' clause use نبودم (nabudam) in the simple past instead of the past continuous?
For second conditionals, the 'if' clause generally uses the simple past or past continuous. However, the verb 'to be' (بودن) is an exception and almost always stays in the simple past for these unreal clauses. So نبودم is used here to mean 'I were not'.
How is the word دروغگو (dorugh-gu) formed?
It is a compound noun made of دروغ (dorugh), meaning 'lie', and گو (gu), which is the present stem of گفتن (to say). Putting them together creates a 'lie-sayer', which translates to 'liar'.
What is the base verb for 'would fulfill' and how does the continuous marker attach to it?
The base compound verb is برآورده کردن (barâvardeh kardan), meaning 'to fulfill' or 'to grant' a wish. In compound verbs, the prefix می (mi) attaches directly to the verbal part (the 'doing' word, which is کردن here). That is why it becomes برآورده میکردم and not میبرآورده کردم.