Breakdown of در این صنعت، هزینهها با سیستم مکانیزه کاهش مییابد.
این
this
درdar
in
باbâ
with
هزینهhazine
cost / expense
سیستمsistem
system
کاهش یافتنkâhesh yâftan
to decrease
صنعتsan'at
industry
مکانیزهmekânize
mechanized
Questions & Answers about در این صنعت، هزینهها با سیستم مکانیزه کاهش مییابد.
The verb here is کاهش مییابد. Doesn't یافتن usually mean 'to find'?
Yes! By itself, یافتن means 'to find'. However, Farsi frequently pairs it with nouns denoting a change of state—such as کاهش (decrease), افزایش (increase), or بهبود (improvement)—to mean 'to undergo that change'. So, کاهش یافتن literally means 'to find a decrease,' but it translates seamlessly to English as the intransitive verb 'to decrease' or 'to go down'.
Could I use پیدا میکند instead of مییابد here, since they both act as the auxiliary verb for 'find'?
You could say کاهش پیدا میکند, and it would mean the exact same thing. However, یافتن is more formal and slightly more literary than پیدا کردن. Because this sentence discusses an industry (صنعت) and a mechanized system (سیستم مکانیزه), the formal tone of کاهش مییابد fits the professional context much better.
How does the transitive version of this verb work? What if I wanted to say 'The mechanized system decreases the costs'?
To change this from an intransitive verb ('costs decrease') to a transitive one ('decreases costs'), you swap the auxiliary verb from یافتن (to find) to دادن (to give). The sentence would then require the direct object marker را and become: سیستم مکانیزه هزینهها را کاهش میدهد (The mechanized system gives a decrease to the costs).
Is مکانیزه a loanword, and does it take the standard ezafe here?
Yes, مکانیزه is borrowed directly from the French word 'mécanisé' (mechanized). It acts as a standard adjective in Farsi, so it connects to the noun it modifies using the unseen ezafe vowel: سیستمِ مکانیزه (sistem-e makânize).
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