Breakdown of از داروخانه دارو میخرم.
ازaz
from
خریدنkharidan
to buy
داروdâru
medicine
داروخانهdârukhâne
pharmacy
Questions & Answers about از داروخانه دارو میخرم.
Why doesn't the word for medicine, دارو, have the object marker را (rā) after it?
In Farsi, the object marker را is only used for specific or definite direct objects (like "the medicine" or "that medicine"). Here, you are just buying "medicine" in general, so it remains a bare noun without را.
I see دارو inside the word داروخانه. How does this word-building work?
The word داروخانه (pharmacy) is made by combining دارو (medicine) and خانه (house or place). Farsi frequently uses خانه as a suffix to create words for places of business, shops, or public buildings, literally translating to something like "medicine house."
The English translation says "from the pharmacy," but there is no word for "the" in the Farsi sentence. Why?
Farsi doesn't have a direct, standalone equivalent for the definite article "the." A bare noun like داروخانه can mean "a pharmacy" or "the pharmacy" depending entirely on the context. If it's the specific place you usually go to, it's naturally understood as "the pharmacy."
What is the infinitive for the verb میخرم, and why does the middle part look different from its past tense?
The infinitive is خریدن (to buy). In Farsi, present tense verbs use a present stem that often looks different from the past stem. The present stem for this verb is خر (khar). To build the verb, you combine می (the continuous/present prefix) + (the present stem) + (the ending for "I"), giving us .