Question 1

The lesson is about fear and apprehension. How does دلهره differ from a more common word like ترس?

Accepted Answer

While ترس refers to a general "fear" (like fear of the dark or a spider), دلهره translates closer to "anxiety", "apprehension", or "dread". It describes that fluttery, nervous feeling of suspense you get before a big event, making it the perfect word for stage fright.

Question 2

This lesson is about subjunctive complements of fear, but there isn't a subjunctive verb in this sentence. Why?

Accepted Answer

This sentence only states the existence of the feeling: "has anxiety". A subjunctive complement is only triggered when you explicitly state the action the person is afraid might happen. Because this sentence doesn't specify an action (like "afraid that he might fail"), there is no secondary verb to put into the subjunctive.

Question 3

How would I add a subjunctive complement to this sentence to say "has anxiety that he might ruin the show"?

Accepted Answer

You would connect the feared action using که (that) right after دلهره دارد, and then put the second verb into the subjunctive. It would look like this: آن کمدین دلهره دارد که نمایش را خراب کند (That comedian has anxiety that he might ruin the show).

Question 4

Are کمدین and استندآپ just English words written in the Farsi alphabet?

Accepted Answer

استندآپ (estand-āp) is indeed a direct borrowing from the English "stand-up". However, کمدین (komediyan) was borrowed from the French "comédien". This is a very common pattern in Farsi: older arts and theater vocabulary often comes from French, while newer entertainment concepts are borrowed from English.

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