قیمت این تیشرت گران نیست.gheymat-e in tishert gerân nist.
The price of this t-shirt is not expensive.
Questions & Answers about قیمت این تیشرت گران نیست.
Where exactly is the hidden Ezāfe vowel in this sentence?
It links the word for price to the item, so you say gheymat-e in tishert. Notice there is no Ezāfe between in (this) and tishert (t-shirt). Demonstrative words like in sit directly next to their noun without any connector.
In English we usually say a price is high, not expensive. Is it normal in Farsi to say a price is expensive?
Yes, it is perfectly natural! In Farsi, people frequently use geran (expensive) and its opposite arzan (cheap) directly with the noun gheymat (price). You do not need to switch to words for high or low like you would in English.
I recognize the word tishert. Do Farsi speakers use the English word?
Exactly, tishert is a direct loanword from English. Because t-shirts are a modern style of clothing, Farsi simply adopted the English name. It is spelled phonetically in the Farsi alphabet.
Why is the verb nist used here instead of adding a negative prefix to ast?
The verb to be is an exception when it comes to making sentences negative. Instead of adding a na- or ne- prefix to ast (which is how you negate almost all regular Farsi verbs), you use the completely separate word nist to mean is not.