Questions & Answers about احتمال تفویض قدرت یک در هزار است.
How does the word تفویض fit the taf'il pattern from this lesson?
تفویض (tafviz), meaning delegation or transferring, perfectly follows the Arabic Form II verbal noun pattern ta-C1-C2-i-C3. Here, the root consonants (C1-C2-C3) are f-v-z (from the Arabic root f-w-z). As you learned, this taf'il pattern creates action nouns, turning the root concept of entrusting into the abstract noun for the act of delegation.
How do we pronounce the connection between the first three words, since there are no prepositions shown?
You connect them using an Ezafe chain (the unstressed -e vowel added to the end of a word). The phrase is pronounced احتمالِ تفویضِ قدرت (ehtemāl-e tafviz-e qodrat). This links the nouns together just like the English preposition of, literally meaning the probability of delegation of power.
Is یک در هزار a fixed idiom in Farsi?
Yes! While English speakers tend to exaggerate by saying one in a million to describe extremely low odds, Farsi speakers commonly use یک در هزار (yek dar hezār, literally one in a thousand) to express that something is highly unlikely to happen.
The word احتمال (ehtemāl) also looks like an Arabic loanword. Does it follow a specific pattern too?
It does. احتمال is an Arabic verbal noun from a different pattern (known as Form VIII or efti'al). You can often spot this pattern by the eh- or ef- sound at the beginning and the long before the final consonant. Its root is (related to carrying or bearing), and here it means probability. Being able to spot both this and the pattern is the key to correctly pronouncing unvoweled Farsi texts.