Question 1

How exactly is har se-mân formed, and could I just say har se-ye mâ?

Accepted Answer

Yes, you could say har se-ye mâ. However, this sentence uses a pronominal partitive, which is very common in natural Farsi. It attaches the first-person plural possessive enclitic -mân (our) directly to the quantifier phrase har se (all three), literally creating 'all three-our'.

Question 2

I know mâl means property. Why doesn't the plural in this sentence use a standard Farsi ending like -hâ?

Accepted Answer

The word amvâl is an Arabic 'broken plural' of mâl. Instead of adding a suffix like -hâ, the internal vowel structure of the word changes. These broken plurals are heavily used in Farsi legal and financial contexts, so they are treated as standard vocabulary at this level.

Question 3

The English translation says 'equally', but mosâvi is usually the adjective for 'equal'. How does that work here?

Accepted Answer

In Farsi, adjectives like mosâvi can often function directly as adverbs to describe how an action was done, without needing to change their form. While you could use a longer descriptive phrase like be tor-e mosâvi (in an equal manner), simply using the adjective itself to mean 'equally' is completely correct and natural here.

Question 4

Why is râ placed right after amvâl and not later in the sentence?

Accepted Answer

The marker râ must immediately follow the specific direct object it applies to. Here, the object being divided is just amvâl (the properties). The phrase mosâvi beyn-e har se-mân gives extra adverbial information about how and to whom the properties were divided, so it sits after râ and before the verb.

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