Hello! In Persian, does the word تعطيلات agree with the verb in singular or plural form. Is it 1) تعطيلات زمستاني ما در ماه دسامبر شروع ميشوند و حدود يك ماه طول ميكشند or is it 2) تعطيلات زمستاني … شروع ميشود و … طول ميكشد
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Would that rule (whatever it is) apply to all inanimate subjects ?
Thank you in advance for your help!
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Its suite with singular shape of verb
Part of times are considered uncountable
Like milk or bread ...
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Salam Jacob!
The simple answer (written Farsi) is this:
Since تعطیلات is a *اسمِ معنی, and that it is an Arabic plural (تعطیل+ ات), when used as the subject, the verb will be in singular form. So the correct form is number 2.
*The word “تعطیلات” is in a special group of names, called “اسمهای معنی” that I think getting into the details of the definition of this group would just make it really complicated for you since it’s an advanced topic full of exceptions :”/ .
But in spoken you can use both forms and it would sound natural.
BTW تعطیلات is not an inanimate word because here’s the definition of inanimate words in Farsi:
Things that CAN BE SEEN, but do not grow and do not move by themselves.
As for your second question, I should say there are certain rules for inanimate plurals but they are very detailed and complex and I believe can’t be explained here! Unfortunately the plural topic in Persian is a bit hard! But the good news is that even natives make mistakes in them all the time! So don’t worry you’ll get the main rules little by little ;)
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