Word
مشتری پیشغذای ارزانی خواست و انعام کمی داد.
Meaning
The customer wanted a cheap appetizer and gave a small tip.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of مشتری پیشغذای ارزانی خواست و انعام کمی داد.
و
and
دادنdâdan
to give
خواستنkhâstan
to want / to ask (request from someone)
ارزانarzân
cheap
Questions & Answers about مشتری پیشغذای ارزانی خواست و انعام کمی داد.
Why is the indefinite "-i" attached to the adjectives arzân and kam instead of the nouns they describe?
In Farsi, when a noun is described by an adjective, the indefinite -i (meaning 'a' or 'an') attaches to the very end of the entire phrase. It hops over the noun and the Ezafe. So, instead of saying pish-ghazâ-i-ye arzân, you use the pattern Noun + Ezafe + Adjective + '-i' to get pish-ghazâ-ye arzân-i (appetizer-Ezafe-cheap-a). The exact same rule applies to en'âm-e kam-i (tip-Ezafe-small-a).
I see a "y" sound in pish-ghazâ-ye. Is that part of the word for appetizer?
No, the base word for appetizer is pish-ghazâ. Because it ends in a long vowel (the 'â' sound), the connecting Ezafe must be pronounced as -ye instead of just -e to make it flow smoothly into the adjective arzân. This prevents two vowels from clashing.
Is pish-ghazâ a compound word?
Yes! It is made of pish (meaning 'before' or 'front') and ghazâ (meaning 'food' or 'meal'). So an appetizer is quite literally 'before-food'.
Why isn't there a subject pronoun like u (he/she) before dâd in the second half of the sentence?
Because Farsi verb endings tell you exactly who is doing the action, subject pronouns are often dropped if the subject is already obvious. Since moshtari (the customer) is established as the subject of the first verb khâst (wanted), it is naturally understood to still be the subject of (gave) after the word (and).