زیرِ، رویِ، کنارِ

Place Phrases with Ezafe

Level 2

زیرِ میز means under the table, and کنارِ خانه means beside the house. The connector belongs inside the location phrase.

How It Works

Connect the place relation. زیرِ میز contains زیر, “under,” the spoken connector -e, and میز, “table.” کنارِ خانه similarly identifies a place beside the house.

In رویِ میز, the phrase is pronounced ru-ye miz. The vowel-final location word uses the -ye link, whose ی is visible in روی. A displayed vowel mark is a teaching aid; ordinary writing commonly gives روی میز.

A pronoun can be the complement too: کنارِ من, “beside me.” Keep the connector even when it is not separately written in ordinary text.

Place the whole phrase in a sentence: کتاب رویِ میز است. The noun کتاب is the subject of this statement, and رویِ میز tells where it is. Do not add را merely because میز is known.

Some fuller written location expressions also have a preceding preposition. Learn the actual expression rather than forcing every location word into one identical spelling pattern.

Examples (4)

  1. زیرِ میز

    under the table

    زیر connects to میز through -e.

  2. کنارِ خانه

    beside the house

    کنار takes ezafe before its complement.

  3. رویِ میز

    on the table

    The phrase is read ru-ye miz; the vowel-following link includes ی.

  4. کنارِ من بنشین.

    Sit beside me.

    A pronoun can follow the location word through ezafe.

How It Connects

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زیرِ، رویِ، کنارِLevel 2Place Phrases with Ezafe

Learn This First

Keep the ezafe connector inside a location phrase, and distinguish it from a simple preposition’s direct complement.