Learn Farsi: به دلیل لباس‌های نامتعارف، او از مردم اجتناب می‌کرده است. - Because of his unconventional clothes, he reportedly avoided people.

به دلیل لباس‌های نامتعارف، او از مردم اجتناب می‌کرده است.be dalil lebâs-hâye nâmote'âref, u az mardom ejtenâb mikarde ast

Because of his unconventional clothes, he reportedly avoided people.

Breakdown of به دلیل لباس‌های نامتعارف، او از مردم اجتناب می‌کرده است.

Questions & Answers about به دلیل لباس‌های نامتعارف، او از مردم اجتناب می‌کرده است.

Why use می‌کرده است here instead of the standard past continuous می‌کرد?

می‌کرده است is the Evidential Past Continuous. It is built with می‌ + the past participle (کرده) + the short copula (است). We use it here instead of می‌کرد to show that the speaker is reporting a past habit they didn't witness firsthand—they either heard about it from someone else (hence "reportedly") or inferred it.

Why is there an از right before مردم (people)?

In Farsi, the formal compound verb اجتناب کردن (to avoid) requires the preposition از (from) to introduce the thing being avoided. Literally, the sentence says he "did avoidance from people."

نامتعارف seems like a very formal word for "unusual." How is it built, and what's a simpler alternative?

It uses the negative prefix نا- (un-) attached to متعارف (customary/conventional). It fits the slightly formal, reporting tone of this sentence. In everyday conversation, you would more likely use عجیب (strange/weird) for unusual clothes.

How does the phrase به دلیل (because of) grammatically connect to the clothes?

به دلیل literally translates to "to the reason [of]". Like many multi-word prepositions in Farsi, the noun part (دلیل) needs an ezâfe vowel (the hidden 'e' sound) to link it to the noun that follows. When spoken, it connects as be dalil-e lebâs-hâ.