Breakdown of اگر من داروساز بودم، داروی جدیدی کشف میکردم.
من
I
بودنbudan
to be
جدیدjadid
new
داروdâru
medicine
کشف کردنkashf kardan
to discover
اگرagar
if
داروسازdârusâz
pharmacist
Questions & Answers about اگر من داروساز بودم، داروی جدیدی کشف میکردم.
How is the word dârusâz formed using the -sâz suffix?
The suffix -sâz is the present stem of the verb sâkhtan (to make, to build). When you attach it to a noun like dâru (medicine), it creates a new noun referring to the maker or producer of that thing. So, dârusâz literally means 'medicine maker,' which is the Farsi word for a pharmacist.
Why are the verbs budam and kashf mikardam in the past tense when this refers to a present hypothetical?
This is an unreal conditional (talking about something that isn't true right now). In Farsi, present unreal conditionals use the simple past tense in the agar (if) clause, and the past imperfect tense (using the mi- prefix) in the result clause. That's why we use budam (I was) and kashf mikardam (I used to discover / I would discover) to mean 'If I were... I would discover.'
In the phrase dâru-ye jadid-i, why does the indefinite -i attach to the adjective instead of the noun?
When a noun is followed by an adjective in an ezâfe construction, the indefinite marker -i (meaning 'a' or 'an') usually attaches to the very end of the noun phrase rather than the noun itself. Therefore, it goes on jadid (new) to form dâru-ye jadid-i (a new medicine).
Why doesn't the direct object dâru-ye jadid-i take the object marker râ?
The marker râ is only used for definite direct objects (like 'the new medicine' or 'this medicine'). Because dâru-ye jadid-i is indefinite (it has the -i suffix meaning 'a'), it acts as an indefinite direct object for the verb kashf mikardam and therefore drops the râ.
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