Breakdown of برادرم در اداره بهزیستی کار میکند و من دربارهاش با او حرف میزنم.
من
I
او
he/she
و
and
برادرbarâdar
brother
درdar
in
باbâ
with
کار کردنkâr kardan
to work
دربارهdarbâre
about / concerning
ادارهedâre
office
حرف زدنharf zadan
to talk (with someone), to chat
بهزیستیbehzisti
welfare (social services, well-being)
Questions & Answers about برادرم در اداره بهزیستی کار میکند و من دربارهاش با او حرف میزنم.
How do we attach the pronoun ending to درباره to make the word دربارهاش?
The preposition درباره ends in a vowel sound (an 'e' sound represented by the silent 'heh'). When you attach the objective enclitic اش- (-ash, meaning 'it'), Farsi inserts a 'y' glide sound to smoothly bridge the two vowels together. This makes the pronunciation 'dar-bâ-re-yash'. In writing, an Alef is simply added after a half-space to carry the pronoun ending: دربارهاش.
Is بهزیستی a compound word?
Yes! It literally means 'well-being' or 'living better'. It is made of به (beh), an older root meaning 'good' or 'better', and زیستی (zisti), which relates to living or life. In Farsi, اداره بهزیستی is the specific name for the state welfare or social services department.
The English translation says 'talk to him', so why does the Farsi sentence use با او?
In English we usually 'talk to' someone, but in Farsi the compound verb حرف زدن (to speak or talk) almost always pairs with the preposition با (with). A direct, literal translation of the Farsi phrasing would be 'I am talking with him'.
Why does the English translation say 'will talk' when حرف میزنم is written in the present tense?
Farsi commonly uses the present continuous tense (the می prefix plus the present stem) to express actions in the near, planned, or definite future. The context of the sentence implies that the conversation hasn't happened yet, so translating it as the future tense 'will talk' sounds most natural in English.
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