The half-space & the ezafe

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می‌

Half-space (ZWNJ)

نیم‌فاصله

می‌رومmiravam

I go

Lesson reference

می‌ Half-space (ZWNJ), An invisible break that keeps letters unjoined without a real space.
Used in prefixes (می‌) and plurals (کتاب‌ها). Type it with Shift + Space.
می‌روم (miravam), I go
◌ِ Ezafe, A linking “-e” that ties two words together.
Almost always spoken but not written, you add the “-e” by ear.
کتابِ من (ketâb-e man), my book
ک / ی Persian vs Arabic letters, Persian uses ک and ی (no dots below); Arabic uses ك and ي.
Copying Arabic text can slip in ك / ي, always use the Persian forms.
یک (yek), one