Breakdown of این بازیگر بیشتر از من نقد خواند.
من
I
این
this
خواندنkhândan
to read / to study (a subject)
بازیگرbâzigar
actor
نقدnaqd
critique / review
بیشتر ازbishtar az
more than
Questions & Answers about این بازیگر بیشتر از من نقد خواند.
Wait, what is بیشتر the comparative form of?
It is the comparative form of زیاد (much/many). Instead of just adding -تر to the base word, Farsi uses the irregular form بیشتر to mean 'more'. You might also hear زیادتر in spoken Farsi, but بیشتر is the standard irregular form you need to know.
In English, we say 'more reviews', but here the word for 'more' (بیشتر) is separated from 'reviews' (نقد). Why is that?
In Farsi comparisons, the phrase بیشتر از (more than) and the person being compared to (من) usually stick together as a block. So the sentence structure is literally: This actor more than me review read.
The English translation says 'reviews' in the plural, but نقد is singular. Shouldn't it be pluralized?
You could use the plural نقدها, but it is extremely common in Farsi to keep nouns singular when they are general and unspecified. Since the actor read reviews in general, rather than a specific group of them, the singular نقد is preferred.
The English translation says 'than I did.' Where is the 'did' in the Farsi sentence?
Farsi does not use a helper verb like 'did' to finish a comparison. The phrase از من literally just means 'than me'. Farsi relies on the main verb at the end of the sentence (خواند) to make the context clear.
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