Questions & Answers about در این آلیاژ، نسبت قلع یک در ده است.
How exactly does یک در ده translate to "one in ten" in this context?
It perfectly mirrors the English structure for statistical proportions. You just take the first number (یک, one), add در (in), and then the second number (ده, ten). This is the standard way to express ratios or probabilities in Farsi, just like saying "one in a million" (یک در میلیون).
The word for alloy, آلیاژ, sounds like it might be borrowed from a European language. Is it?
Yes, آلیاژ (âliyâzh) is a French loanword (from "alliage"). Farsi borrowed many scientific, technical, and medical terms from French in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Notice the ژ (zh) sound at the end, which is a classic hallmark of French loanwords in Farsi.
Why is there an ezafe between نسبت and قلع?
The invisible ezafe vowel (نسبتِ قلع, nesbat-e ghal') links the noun نسبت (proportion or ratio) to the specific substance it belongs to, قلع (tin). It functions exactly like the word "of" in the English translation "the proportion of tin".
If I wanted to say "ten percent" instead of "one in ten", how would that change the sentence?
Saying یک در ده (one in ten) is very natural here, but you could easily use a percentage instead. You would replace it with ده درصد (ten percent). Interestingly, درصد literally means "in a hundred", so it uses the exact same grammatical logic as your current lesson topic!