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Questions & Answers about انگشتم درد میکند.
Is the ـَم on انگشتم the experiencer pronoun we are learning in this lesson, like in سردم است?
No, this is actually just the standard possessive suffix meaning my. In an experiencer verb like سردم است (I am cold), the ـَم shows who is experiencing the feeling. But here, انگشتم simply means my finger, and it acts as the regular grammatical subject of the sentence.
Why is the verb میکند used here instead of a verb for is or has?
In Farsi, the compound verb for a body part aching or hurting is درد کردن (literally to do pain). Because the body part is the subject doing the action, the verb takes the 3rd person singular form میکند. The sentence literally translates to my finger does pain.
If I want to express pain using the psychological verb pattern from this lesson, how would I do it?
To say I feel pain generally, without naming a specific body part, you use the experiencer pattern: دردم میآید (literally my pain comes) or دردم میگیرد (literally my pain catches). But when you specify exactly which body part hurts, you switch back to making that body part the subject and use درد میکند.
How will I hear میکند pronounced in casual conversation?
In spoken Farsi, میکند is almost always shortened to میکنه. So in everyday life, you will hear انگشتم درد میکنه.