Learn Farsi: مددکار برایش یک پناهگاه پیدا کرد. - The social worker found a shelter for him.

It combines the preposition barâ-ye (for) with the third-person singular pronoun ending -ash (him/her). Because barâ-ye ends in a vowel, Farsi inserts a -y- consonant as a bridge so the vowels don't crash together. This gives us barâ-y-ash instead of the hard-to-pronounce "barâ-e-ash".

What is the suffix at the end of panâhgâh (پناهگاه)?

The word ends with the suffix -gâh, which means "place of". The first part, panâh, means "refuge" or "shelter". So a panâhgâh is literally a "place of refuge". You might recognize this same suffix from words like dâneshgâh (university, "place of knowledge").

Does madadkâr (مددکار) literally mean "social worker"?

Literally, it translates closer to "helper" or "assistance doer". It is made up of madad (help or assistance) and the suffix -kâr (doer or worker). However, in modern Farsi, it is the standard professional title for a social worker.

Why is barâ-y-ash placed before the direct object yek panâhgâh?

In Farsi, prepositional phrases like barâ-y-ash (for him) often come before the direct object when that object is indefinite. Because "a shelter" is indefinite—it uses yek (a/one) and has no specific -râ marker—the prepositional phrase naturally slips in between the subject and the object.