Breakdown of ترجمهی سوم امروز منتشر نشد.
امروزemruz
today
سومsevom
third
منتشر شدنmontasher shodan
to be published
ترجمهtarjome
translation
Questions & Answers about ترجمهی سوم امروز منتشر نشد.
Why is sevvom placed after tarjome, and how would the sentence change if we used sevvomin?
Sevvom is the standard ordinal number ending in -om, which always goes after the noun and takes an Ezafe (tarjome-ye sevvom). If you wanted to use the emphatic -omin form taught in this lesson, it would go before the noun without an Ezafe: sevvomin tarjome emruz montasher nashod. Both mean the third translation, but the -omin version is a bit more formal or emphatic.
Why does the Ezafe sound like -ye and look like an extra letter in tarjome-ye sevvom?
The word tarjome ends in a silent h (ه) that acts as a short e vowel. Because Farsi avoids putting two vowels right next to each other, a y sound is added to bridge them, making the Ezafe sound like -ye. In modern writing, this is often written out fully with the letter ye (ی) after the silent h, as seen here in ترجمهی.
How does the verb montasher nashod work here?
This is a compound verb made of the adjective montasher (published) and the verb shodan (to become). Farsi literally says the translation did not become published. Notice that to make it negative, the na- prefix only attaches to the helping verb shodan, creating nashod.
Could the time word emruz (today) go somewhere else in this sentence?