Breakdown of او صدمه دید و شکستگی داشت، ولی فلج نشد.
او
he/she
و
and
داشتنdâshtan
to have
ولیvali
but
صدمه دیدنsadme didan
to get injured
شکستگیshekastegi
fracture
فلج شدنfalaj shodan
to become paralyzed
Questions & Answers about او صدمه دید و شکستگی داشت، ولی فلج نشد.
This lesson is about past possibility. How would we change the end of the sentence to say 'he might have become paralyzed'?
To express past possibility, you use a phrase like momken bud (it was possible) followed by the subjunctive. Instead of the simple past falaj nashod (he didn't become paralyzed), you would drop the negative and say momken bud falaj beshavad (or beshe in spoken Farsi), which means 'he might have become paralyzed'.
Why does the Farsi sentence use the verb did (saw) to mean 'got injured'?
The phrase sadame did is a compound verb made of sadame (injury or damage) and didan (to see). In Farsi, you literally 'see injury' when you get hurt. This compound verb is used for both people getting injured and things getting damaged.
How is the noun shekastegi (fracture) built from its root?
It is built from the verb shekastan (to break). The past participle is shekaste (broken). When an adjective ends in that short 'e' sound, Farsi often adds the suffix -gi to turn it into an abstract noun. So shekastegi essentially means 'brokenness' or a fracture.
Why use nashod (didn't become) instead of nabud (was not) after the word paralyzed?
Nashod is the negative simple past tense of shodan (to become). It is used here because the sentence is talking about a potential change of state caused by the injury. If you used nabud (was not), it would just describe his background state, meaning he simply wasn't a paralyzed person in general.
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