Breakdown of تیم ما هر هفته بسکتبال بازی میکند.
ما
we
هرhar
every
هفتهhafte
week
بازی کردنbâzi kardan
to play
تیمtim
team
بسکتبالbasketbâl
basketball
Questions & Answers about تیم ما هر هفته بسکتبال بازی میکند.
This lesson is about reciprocal pronouns. How would I change this sentence to say "Our team plays basketball with each other every week"?
You would use the preposition با (with) followed by the reciprocal pronoun همدیگر (each other), or its shorter version هم. You usually place this phrase before the object, making the sentence: تیم ما هر هفته با همدیگر بسکتبال بازی میکند.
"Team" refers to multiple people. Why does the verb میکند use a singular ending instead of a plural one?
In Farsi, collective nouns that represent a group, such as تیم (team), خانواده (family), or کلاس (class), are generally treated as a single, unified thing. Therefore, they take the third-person singular verb ending, just like in American English.
Is there an ezāfe connection in تیم ما?
Yes! To say "our team" (literally "team of us"), you must connect the noun تیم and the pronoun ما with an unseen ezāfe vowel. It is pronounced tim-e ma.
Why does the word for "basketball" come right before the verb?
Farsi follows a Subject-Object-Verb word order. Here, بسکتبال is the object of the sentence, so it is placed directly before the compound verb بازی میکند (plays) at the very end of the sentence.
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