Word
تا جایی که ما میفهمیم، هیچکس صحت این داستان را تایید نمیکند.
Meaning
As far as we understand, nobody confirms the accuracy of this story.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of تا جایی که ما میفهمیم، هیچکس صحت این داستان را تایید نمیکند.
ما
we
این
this
راrâ
definite direct object marker
داستانdâstân
story
Questions & Answers about تا جایی که ما میفهمیم، هیچکس صحت این داستان را تایید نمیکند.
Why is the verb میفهمیم in the indicative mood instead of the subjunctive?
The phrase تا جایی که (as far as) takes the indicative mood when stating a fact about the current state of things or someone's knowledge. Because you are talking about what you actually understand right now, you use the regular present tense میفهمیم rather than the subjunctive.
The English translation says 'nobody confirms', but the Farsi verb is negative (نمیکند). Why is that?
Farsi uses double negatives. Whenever you use a negative pronoun like هیچکس (nobody) or هیچچیز (nothing), the main verb must also be negative. Literally, the sentence says 'nobody does not confirm'.
Why does the direct object marker را come after داستان instead of right after صحت (accuracy)?
The marker را always attaches to the very end of the entire noun phrase that acts as the direct object. Here, the complete direct object is صحت این داستان (the accuracy of this story), so را is placed at the very end of that connected phrase, not right after the head noun.
What is the root of the verb تایید نمیکند?
It comes from the compound verb تایید کردن (to confirm or approve). The word تایید is a noun meaning 'confirmation'. To make the present tense negative, the negative prefix نـ is attached to the helping verb کردن, giving us تایید نمیکند.