Breakdown of خوردن غذای غیر رژیمی بدون دلیل منطقی مجاز نیست.
بودنbudan
to be
غذاghazâ
food
خوردنkhordan
to eat / to drink
دلیلdalil
reason
Questions & Answers about خوردن غذای غیر رژیمی بدون دلیل منطقی مجاز نیست.
How does gheyr-e attach to rezhimi in this sentence?
gheyr acts as a negating prefix meaning "non-" or "un-", but grammatically it behaves like a noun that takes an Ezafe (-e) to connect to the adjective following it. So, gheyr-e rezhimi forms a unit meaning "non-diet". It's a very common way to create opposites for adjectives in Farsi.
How does the Ezafe chain work in the phrase ghazâ-ye gheyr-e rezhimi?
There are two Ezafes linking this phrase together. The first connects the noun ghazâ (food) to its modifier: ghazâ-ye (because ghazâ ends in a vowel, it takes a -ye instead of just -e). The modifier itself is the compound gheyr-e rezhimi. So the full chain is ghazâ-ye gheyr-e rezhimi (literally: food [of] non- [of] diet).
Both rezhimi and manteghi end in -i. What is the function of this suffix here?
This -i is a derivational suffix that turns nouns into adjectives. It transforms the noun rezhim (diet) into the adjective rezhimi (dietary/diet-related) and the noun mantegh (logic) into the adjective manteghi (logical).
Why is the infinitive khordan (to eat) used as the subject of the sentence?