Breakdown of بچهها هلو و انگور خوردند.
و
and
خوردنkhordan
to eat / to drink
بچهbacheh
child
انگورangur
grapes
هلوholu
peach
Questions & Answers about بچهها هلو و انگور خوردند.
Why aren't "peaches" and "grapes" pluralized in the Farsi sentence?
In Farsi, when you talk about consuming a general category of food or fruit, you usually use the singular form. While English says "peaches and grapes", Farsi treats هلو and انگور as general mass categories here, so they don't need the plural marker ها.
Why isn't the specific object marker را used after the fruit?
The marker را is only used for specific direct objects, like if the sentence meant "The children ate THE peaches." Because these are just generic, non-specific peaches and grapes, we drop the را.
Is the word و pronounced "va" or "o" here?
In everyday spoken Farsi, the conjunction و is almost always pronounced "o". So instead of reading it as "holu va angur", you will typically hear "holu-o angur".
Why does the verb خوردند end in -ند?
The ending -ند is the "they" suffix for Farsi verbs. Because the subject بچهها (the children) is a plural human subject, the verb must match it by taking the plural "they" ending attached to the past tense stem خورد.
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