Word
یا دو میلیگرم جامد یا دو میلیلیتر مایع لازم است.
Meaning
Either two milligrams of solid or two milliliters of liquid is necessary.
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Questions & Answers about یا دو میلیگرم جامد یا دو میلیلیتر مایع لازم است.
Why isn't there an ezafe between the unit of measurement and the substance, like in do mili-geram-e jâmed?
In Farsi, units of measurement act like counters or classifiers. Just as you say do tâ ketâb (two books) without an ezafe, you put the measurement unit directly before the noun without one. So it is correctly do mili-geram jâmed (two milligrams of solid).
How does the yâ ... yâ ... structure work in this sentence?
The correlative conjunction yâ ... yâ ... translates directly to 'either ... or ...' in English. You place the first yâ before the first option and the second yâ before the alternative, exactly mirroring English grammar.
Why is the verb ast (is) singular when the sentence mentions both a solid and a liquid?
There are two reasons. First, inanimate subjects in Farsi generally take singular verbs. Second, the conjunction yâ ... yâ ... (either ... or ...) presents the subjects as mutually exclusive alternatives rather than combining them together, so a singular verb is naturally expected here.
If this sentence used a decimal like 2.5 instead of 2, how would we write it using momayyez?
You would simply replace the whole number do with the decimal phrase. For 2.5 milligrams, you would say do momayyez-e panj mili-geram. The measurement unit and the substance that follow remain exactly the same.