Breakdown of همکار راستگو انتقاد را میپذیرد.
همکارhamkâr
colleague
راrâ
definite direct object marker
پذیرفتنpaziroftan
to accept
انتقادenteqâd
criticism
Questions & Answers about همکار راستگو انتقاد را میپذیرد.
How does the compound adjective راستگو fit into this lesson's pattern?
It follows the Adjective + Present Stem pattern perfectly. راست means true or right, and گو is the bare present stem of گفتن (to say or tell). Put them together, and you get truth-saying or truthful.
I don't see an Ezafe between همکار and راستگو. Do I still pronounce one?
Yes, absolutely. You need the spoken Ezafe to link the noun همکار (colleague) to its describing adjective راستگو (truthful). You will pronounce it as hamkār-e rāst-gū, even though the vowel isn't written in the Persian script.
Why is the definite object marker را used after انتقاد (criticism) if we are talking about criticism in general?
In Farsi, when you talk about an abstract concept as a whole (like criticism or love) and it acts as the direct object of a verb, it is treated as a specific, defined entity in the mind of the speaker. Therefore, it requires the definite marker را.
What is the infinitive for the verb میپذیرد?
The infinitive is پذیرفتن (to accept). The present stem is پذیر, which is a highly useful stem to know because it forms many other characteristic compound adjectives you will encounter, such as انتقادپذیر (open to criticism). Here, it simply takes the standard continuous prefix می and the third-person singular ending ـد.