Breakdown of هر شالیزار به آب زیاد نیاز دارد.
آبâb
water
بهbe
to
داشتنdâshtan
to have
نیازniyâz
need
هرhar
every
زیادziyâd
a lot
شالیزارshâlizâr
rice paddy
Questions & Answers about هر شالیزار به آب زیاد نیاز دارد.
The word for rice paddy is shālīzār. Is the -zār part a common suffix for places?
Yes, the suffix -zār is used to denote a place abundant in a certain thing. For example, shālī means unhusked rice, so shālīzār is a rice paddy. Other common examples include chamanzār (meadow, from chaman for grass) and lālezār (tulip field, from lāle for tulip).
Why is shālīzār singular when we are talking about rice paddies in general?
The word har means every or each, and just like in English, it must be followed by a singular noun. If you wanted to say all rice paddies, you would use hame-ye with a plural noun instead: hame-ye shālīzārhā.
We used āb-e ziyād with an ezāfe connecting the noun and quantifier. Can I say kheili āb instead?
Yes, but there is a slight grammatical difference. The word ziyād acts as an adjective here, which is why it follows the noun with an ezāfe (āb-e ziyād, literally much water). If you use kheili, it acts as a quantifier and comes before the noun without an ezāfe: kheili āb. Both are perfectly natural to say.
Why do we need the preposition be before āb?
The compound verb niyāz dāshtan (to need) literally translates to having need. In Farsi, you have a need to or for something, which is why the preposition be is required. The structure is always be [something] niyāz dāshtan.
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