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از روز فارغالتحصیلی به بعد، من به این حرفه علاقهمند شدم.
Meaning
From graduation day onwards, I became interested in this profession.
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Questions & Answers about از روز فارغالتحصیلی به بعد، من به این حرفه علاقهمند شدم.
How does از ... به بعد work in this sentence to show time?
The circumposition از ... به بعد wraps around a specific point in time, which in this case is روز فارغالتحصیلی (graduation day). It acts like a bracket meaning from that point onwards. It highlights that the state of being interested started at that exact moment and remained continuously true after that point.
Why is the simple past شدم used here if the interest continued onwards? Shouldn't it be a continuous or perfect tense?
In Farsi, when talking about a change in state or emotion, using the simple past of شدن (to become) emphasizes the exact moment the change happened. The phrase از ... به بعد already provides the continuous onwards context, so علاقهمند شدم simply marks graduation day as the trigger point where the interest was born.
The word for graduation, فارغالتحصیلی, is quite long. How is it constructed?
It is a compound word with Arabic roots that has been adapted into Farsi. It breaks down into فارغ (finished or free), the Arabic definite article الـ (which links the words), تحصیل (education or study), and the Farsi suffix ی which turns the whole phrase into a noun. Literally, it means the state of being finished with education.
Why do we use the preposition به right before این حرفه (this profession)?
The adjective علاقهمند (interested) strongly pairs with the preposition به (to). While in English you say you are interested in something, in Farsi you say you are interested to it. Therefore, literally translates as I became interested to this profession.