Word
ازش پرسیدم، ولی جواب نداد.
Meaning
I asked her, but she did not answer.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
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Breakdown of ازش پرسیدم، ولی جواب نداد.
جوابjavâb
answer
دادنdâdan
to give
پرسیدنporsidan
to ask
ولیvali
but
Questions & Answers about ازش پرسیدم، ولی جواب نداد.
Why does the sentence use ازش (from her) instead of a direct object like we do in English?
In English, we say 'I asked her' using a direct object. In Farsi, the verb پرسیدن (to ask) requires the preposition از (from). Literally, you are saying 'I asked from her'.
What exactly is ازش a combination of?
It is a spoken, contracted form of از او (from him/her). The از (from) is combined with the attached pronoun ـش (him/her). This kind of contraction is extremely common in everyday conversational Farsi.
Why is the verb for 'did not answer' written as جواب نداد?
Farsi uses many compound verbs. Here, 'to answer' is جواب دادن, which literally means 'to give an answer'. To say 'she did not answer', you make the 'give' part negative in the past tense, resulting in نداد (did not give). So جواب نداد literally translates to 'she did not give an answer'.