Breakdown of بعد از آن جنجال بزرگ، او شبانهروز در اتاق خود گریه میکرده است.
او
he/she
آن
that
اتاق
room
بزرگbozorg
big / large
درdar
in
گریه کردنgerye kardan
to cry
خودkhod
self
بعد ازba'd az
after (time)
جنجالjenjâl
controversy / uproar
شبانهروزshabâne-ruz
day and night / around the clock
Questions & Answers about بعد از آن جنجال بزرگ، او شبانهروز در اتاق خود گریه میکرده است.
How does گریه میکرده است mean "allegedly used to cry" instead of just "was crying"?
This is the Evidential Past Continuous. The prefix mi- shows the action was continuous or habitual in the past ("used to cry"), while the past participle plus ast ending (-eh ast) adds the evidential layer. It tells the listener that the speaker didn't witness the crying directly, but inferred it or heard about it from someone else (hence "allegedly" or "apparently").
Would it be wrong to just say گریه میکرد in this sentence?
It wouldn't be grammatically wrong, but it would change the meaning. گریه میکرد is the regular Past Continuous. Using it would imply the speaker knows for a fact that he cried, probably because they were there to witness it. The evidential form گریه میکرده است specifically distances the speaker from direct knowledge of the event.
Why use اتاق خود instead of adding the possessive ending to make it اتاقش?
Both are perfectly correct, but خود (self) acts as a reflexive pronoun referring back to the subject (او). Using اتاق خود emphasizes that it was his own room, and it sounds slightly more formal or literary. In everyday speech, you will hear اتاقش more often.
What is the exact breakdown of the word شبانهروز?
It is a compound word made of شب (night) and روز (day), linked by the suffix ـانه (-âneh). While it literally means a 24-hour period, it functions here as an adverb of time meaning "around the clock" or "day and night."
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