Showing posts with label verb. Show all posts
Showing posts with label verb. Show all posts

Wednesday, 15 December 2010

Simple Past Tense Verb

Salom!!!

We learn first two verbs first from this post. And we learn how should we conjugate them. If for spoken Farsi, it is better transcribed in Roman script rather than being read in Perso-Arabic script. Because the way Iranian pronounce vowel "a" is a bit different to other people.

raftan (رفتن) - to go

man reftem (من رفتم) - I went
to refti (تو رفتی) - you went
o reft (او رفت) - he/she went
aan reft (آن رفت) - they went
maa refteem (ما رفتيم) - we went
shoma refteed (شما رفتيد) - you went
aanhaa reftend (انها رفتند) - they went 

neveshtan (نوشتن) - to write
 
man neveshtem (من نوشتم) - I wrote
to neveshti (تو نوشتي) - you wrote
o nevesht (او نوشت) - he/she wrote
aan nevesht (آن نوشت) - it wrote
maa neveshteem (ما نوشتيم) - we wrote
shomaa neveshteed (شما نوشتيد) - you people wrote
aanhaa neveshtend (آنها نوشتند) - they wrote


as a mean of exercise, try to conjugate ourselves these verbs into simple past tense:

1) deedaen (ديدن) - to see
2) baestaen (بستن) - to close
3) shekaestaen (شکستن) - to break

Tuesday, 7 December 2010

Verb Dor or Have

Salom!

Dor is Farsi verb for have. How do we use it with person pronouns? It is like in the example:

Man dor-am
I have

Shoma dor-id
You have

For example we can analyze it in a conversation:

Ali: bebakhshid, phul-e-kaphee?
Yousef: man phul-e-kaphee na dor-am. shoma phul darid?

Bebakhshid means sorry and phul means money. while kaphee means enough. let us analyze the sentence one by one. how do we get the conjugation dorid (you have) and doram (I have)? they are from suffixes -id for shoma, while -am for man.

The word phul-e-kaphee where "e" becomes the conjunction of those two words shows possession of a noun followed by an adjective.