We are going to talk about the word "چطور" or how to form a question with
using the word "چطور". It means how and you you will see in your book and
other places that some people write it like this.
Not as one word, while the correct way is to write it separately.
Because it's the combination of tow words "چه" means what and "طور" means type, or
way ,what way ,or what type. Then we can translate it to how. So now we want
to form a question. Always try to put "چطور" the question word close to the
verb, because you want to specify mainly the verb. So look at this example
of "چطور آمدی؟", how did you come. How did you come or
چطور آن گتاب را خواندی؟
I'm asking how did you read that book. How did you read
that book?
چطور آن کتاب را خواندی؟
Another example is:
چطور برگشتی؟
How did you come back? But if you want to say that "how did you come back
from somewhere," for example, how did you come back from Tehran, you can add this
one in between the verb and the question word "چطور".
از تهران برگشتی
We saw in this case "چطور آن کتاب را خواندی".
This is a with the verb,
using "چطور" to make a question with the verbs other than the verb "to be." With
the verb "to be," with which is "چطور" is used a lot, it's important to know that
you have two options using the long form of the verb "to be," or using the short
form. The short form is much more common. Let's look at some examples.
You want to ask "how are you," ask your friend how is he. So you will say
چطور هستی؟
So here I'm using the long form of the
verb "to be." But the the most common way to say this sentence is using the
short form of the verb "to be."
چطوری؟
So instead of "هستی" we use the short form of
the verb "to be," which is "ی". Or for example, for the third person, I would
say "چطور است". For example, I want to say that "how is he?"
او چطور است؟
But the more the common way to say this sentence is to say
چطوره؟
The short form of the verb "to be," which is more colloquial. So in this case
it's "او چطور است". Mostly people say "چطوره" instead of saying "چطور است".
And the last point about "چطور" is the other form of it. "طور" is
an Arabic word. So there is a Persian equivalent, which is "گونه". So we have the
combination of:
چگونه
Or if you write it as one word, which is exactly the same.
But it is more formal and you don't use it in colloquial Persian. It's mostly used
in written Persian when people are writing a book or an article or stuff.
So it's more formal and the colloquial one is that when you want to ask your
friend "how are they," or how the things are, you use this form. But "چگونه", if you
see it somewhere, it's exactly the same as "چطور". There is no difference. This
one, "گونه" is Persian, while "طور" is Arabic.