Breakdown of در دی برف میآید.
درdar
in
آمدنâmadan
to come
برفbarf
snow
دیdey
Dey (10th Persian month, Dec–Jan)
Questions & Answers about در دی برف میآید.
Why does the sentence use the verb میآید (comes) instead of a specific verb for snowing?
In Farsi, weather events like rain and snow don't have their own single verbs like "to snow" or "to rain". Instead, you use the noun for the weather, like برف (snow), along with the verb آمدن (to come). Literally, this sentence says "In Dey, snow comes."
What exactly is دی (Dey)? Is it just the Farsi word for December?
دی is the tenth month of the Solar Hijri calendar, which is the official calendar used in Iran. It roughly corresponds to late December and most of January. It is the first month of winter, which is why it snows!
There is no word for "it" in the Farsi sentence. How do we know it says "it snows"?
English uses "it" as a placeholder or "dummy" subject for weather, as in "it is snowing". Farsi doesn't use these placeholders. The noun برف (snow) is the actual subject of the sentence, doing the action of "coming" (میآید).
Since میآید has the می prefix, could this also mean "it is snowing" right now?
Yes! The می prefix creates both the simple present (it snows generally) and the present continuous (it is snowing right now). However, because the sentence talks about a whole month (در دی), context tells us it is a general fact ("it snows") rather than an action happening at this exact second.