Word
من دلقک و عروسکگردان را دیدم که داشتند با همدیگر میرقصیدند.
Meaning
I saw the clown and the puppeteer dancing together.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of من دلقک و عروسکگردان را دیدم که داشتند با همدیگر میرقصیدند.
من
I
و
and
باbâ
with
داشتنdâshtan
to have
Questions & Answers about من دلقک و عروسکگردان را دیدم که داشتند با همدیگر میرقصیدند.
Why do we use که followed by the past continuous here instead of a participle like 'dancing'?
In Farsi, perception verbs like دیدم (I saw) take a pseudo-relative clause. Instead of saying 'I saw them dancing', you literally say 'I saw them that they were dancing'. Because the main verb is in the past, the action you witnessed is expressed in the past continuous: داشتند ... میرقصیدند.
Does را mark both the clown and the puppeteer as the direct object?
Yes. When you have a compound direct object joined by و (and), you only need to use را once at the very end of the noun phrase. Here, it marks the entire phrase دلقک و عروسکگردان as the object of what you saw.
Why are داشتند and میرقصیدند in the plural form?
Even though the subjects of the relative clause aren't explicitly restated as a pronoun like 'they', the verbs must agree with the plural object of the main clause (the clown and the puppeteer). Therefore, both parts of the past continuous verb take the third-person plural ending.
How is the word عروسکگردان constructed?
It is a compound noun made of عروسک (doll or puppet) and گردان (the present stem of گرداندن, which means to turn, run, or manage). Literally, it means a puppet operator.
English says 'dancing together', but Farsi uses با همدیگر. Can I just use instead?