Breakdown of من چرخدندههای کوچک را با پنس برمیدارم.
من
I
کوچکkuchak
small
باbâ
with
راrâ
definite direct object marker
Questions & Answers about من چرخدندههای کوچک را با پنس برمیدارم.
Since چرخدندهها (gears) is an inanimate plural, why doesn't this sentence use a 3rd-person singular verb like we are learning in this lesson?
The rule about inanimate plurals taking a 3rd-person singular verb only applies when they are the subject of the sentence. Here, the subject is من (I), so the verb برمیدارم must match من. The gears are just the direct object receiving the action, so they do not dictate the verb ending.
Why does را come after کوچک instead of directly after چرخدندهها?
The object marker را must follow the entire noun phrase that makes up the specific direct object. Because the gears are described as small, the adjective is linked to the noun with an ezafe (چرخدندههای کوچک), and را goes at the very end of that complete phrase.
In English, "tweezers" is a plural word. Why isn't پنس pluralized in Farsi?
Unlike English, which treats tools with two identical parts (like tweezers, scissors, or glasses) as grammatically plural, Farsi treats them as singular nouns. You would only pluralize پنس if you were talking about multiple distinct pairs of tweezers.
How do the different parts of the verb برمیدارم fit together?
This is the present tense of the prefixed verb برداشتن (to pick up). In verbs with a prefix like بر, the present continuous marker می slips between the prefix and the verb stem. So it is built as: (prefix) + (continuous marker) + (present stem of داشتن) + (1st-person singular ending).