Questions & Answers about خربزهی این مغازه خیلی تازه است.
Why is there a ی added to the end of خربزه (kharboze)?
The base word for melon is خربزه (kharboze). Because it ends in a 'silent h' (ه), which actually makes an 'e' vowel sound, you need a consonant bridge to connect it to the next word. Farsi adds a 'ye' sound to link them, written here as ی, so it sounds like 'kharboze-ye'.
The English translation says 'This shop's melon', but what is the exact word order in Farsi?
Farsi uses the Ezafe connector (the ی we just talked about) to link nouns, usually in a 'Thing + Owner' order. So خربزهی این مغازه literally translates to 'the melon of this shop'.
The sentence uses the singular خربزه (melon). Shouldn't it be plural if we are talking about a shop's produce?
In English we would usually say 'The melons in this shop are fresh.' However, in Farsi, it is perfectly natural and very common to use a singular noun to talk about a whole category or a general type of produce. خربزه here refers to the melons in general at this shop.
In everyday spoken Farsi, how would people pronounce تازه است (taze ast)?
In casual conversation, the verb است (is) almost always shrinks and attaches to the word right before it. Because تازه (taze) ends in a vowel sound, the 'a' in است drops out. People will just say تازهست (taze-st).