Question 1

Why do we use an affirmative verb (می‌خرند) with صرفاً? Don't we sometimes use negative verbs to say "only"?

Accepted Answer

While some structures for "only" or "except" require a negative verb in Farsi (like using جز meaning "except"), صرفاً (serfan) and تنها (tanhâ) are emphatic restrictions that mean "solely" or "exclusively." They always pair with an affirmative verb to emphasize exactly what someone does do.

Question 2

Why does the infinitive verb انباشتن (anbâshtan) have the direct object marker را attached to it?

Accepted Answer

In Farsi, the full infinitive can act as a noun, similar to English "-ing" words (gerunds). Here, انباشتن acts as a noun meaning "hoarding" or "accumulating." Because this concept is the specific direct object of the verb دوست دارند (they like), it requires the direct object marker را.

Question 3

Why is هم (ham) placed after را rather than right after the noun?

Accepted Answer

The direct object marker را is tightly bound to the noun phrase it marks and acts almost like a suffix. When you use هم (also/too) to modify that noun phrase, it must come after را, which is why we see انباشتن را هم instead of putting هم in the middle.

Question 4

How do we break down the word کاربردی (kârbordi)?

Accepted Answer

It is made of the noun کاربرد (kârbord), which means "application" or "use," plus the suffix -ی (-i) which turns nouns into adjectives. Together, they create کاربردی, meaning "applied" or "practical" (items that have a real-world use).

اگرچه آنها صرفاً وسایل کاربردی می‌خرند، انباشتن را هم دوست دارند.

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