Word
اگر ناظرین برسند، جلسه را شروع میکنیم.
Meaning
If the observers arrive, we start the meeting.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of اگر ناظرین برسند، جلسه را شروع میکنیم.
جلسهjalase
meeting
شروع کردنshoru' kardan
to start
راrâ
definite direct object marker
رسیدنrasidan
to arrive
Questions & Answers about اگر ناظرین برسند، جلسه را شروع میکنیم.
Why does the word for "observers" use the suffix -in (ناظرین) instead of the usual -ha or -an?
The suffix -in is borrowed from Arabic grammar and is used in formal Persian to pluralize Arabic loanwords referring to people (animate nouns). The singular is ناظر (observer). While you might hear ناظرها or ناظران in everyday Farsi, ناظرین is the standard form in news, business, and official contexts.
Why is the verb برسند (they arrive) in the subjunctive mood?
The conjunction اگر (if) introduces a conditional clause about a possible future event. In Farsi, the verb in the "if" clause of a realistic conditional sentence takes the present subjunctive mood. This turns the present stem of to arrive (رس) into برسند.
The English translation implies a future action ("we will start the meeting"). Why is شروع میکنیم in the present indicative tense?
In Farsi "Type 1" conditional sentences (which deal with possible future events), the main result clause often uses the present indicative tense. This expresses that the action will happen immediately or definitely once the condition is met. While the formal future tense (شروع خواهیم کرد) is grammatically correct, using the present indicative is much more natural and common in speech and writing.
As a quick refresher, why is را used after جلسه?
را is the definite direct object marker. Because "the meeting" () is a specific known event receiving the action of being started, it requires . If we omitted it, the sentence would sound like "we will start a meeting" in a vague or general sense, which doesn't fit the context here.