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Questions & Answers about بچهها میرن نونوایی.
Why is the verb میرن used here instead of the standard میروند?
میرن is the very common spoken form of میروند. In everyday spoken Farsi, the plural ending -اند is often shortened to just -ن, and the و in the stem of رفتن is dropped to make it easier to say.
Where is the word for 'to' in this sentence?
In spoken Farsi, the preposition به (meaning 'to') is frequently dropped before a destination. You just say the verb and then the place, like میرن نونوایی instead of the formal به نانوایی میروند.
Why is the word for bakery spelled and pronounced نونوایی instead of نانوایی?
In everyday spoken Farsi, particularly in the Tehrani accent, the 'an' sound before a consonant often changes to an 'oon' sound. So نانوایی (nanvayi) becomes نونوایی (noonvayi). You will hear this exact same change with the word for bread itself, which goes from نان to نون.
The translation says 'are going', but isn't میرن the simple present tense?
Farsi doesn't strictly separate present continuous ('are going') and simple present ('go') in the exact way English does. The present prefix می covers both meanings. If they wanted to heavily emphasize that they are on their way right this second, they could use the auxiliary verb داشتن and say دارن میرن.