Breakdown of هر چه بیشتر گشتیم، اطلاعات کمتری یافتیم.
هرhar
every
چهche
what
گشتنgashtan
to search
بیشترbishtar
more / most (of)
Questions & Answers about هر چه بیشتر گشتیم، اطلاعات کمتری یافتیم.
How does the "The more... the less..." structure work in this sentence?
In Farsi, the correlative comparative ("the more X, the more Y") is often formed by placing هر چه (har che) or هر قدر (har ghadr) at the beginning of the first clause with a comparative word, followed by another comparative in the second clause. Here, we see بیشتر (bishtar - more) and کمتری (kamtari - less). Notice that Farsi doesn't use a word to translate the English "the" in the second clause.
The lesson focuses on the light verb یافتن (yâftan). How is it used here compared to پیدا کردن (peydâ kardan)?
یافتن (yâftan) means "to find" or "to obtain." It is the formal, written equivalent of the everyday conversational verb پیدا کردن (peydâ kardan). While this sentence uses it as a standalone verb ("we found"), یافتن is highly productive as a light verb in formal Farsi. It combines with nouns to create inchoative compound verbs (verbs showing a change of state), like افزایش یافتن (to increase), serving as a formal alternative to شدن (shodan).
Why is there an ی suffix at the end of کمتری (kamtari)?
This is the indefinite ی (yê-ye nakare). When you have a noun phrase with an adjective in an indefinite context (meaning "some lesser amount of information"), Farsi attaches this indefinite ی to the very end of the phrase. So, instead of attaching it to the noun, it attaches to the comparative adjective, giving us اطلاعات کمتری (ettelâ'ât-e kamtari).
Why is اطلاعات (ettelâ'ât) in the plural form when the English translation says "information"?