As you know, practice makes perfect! These useful drills present even more new words for you to add to this week’s lesson. This will not only build your Persian vocabulary, but also help you learn to read and write Farsi more quickly and confidently.
‘To kiss’ means 
/bu:sidæn/.
Delete 
/nu:n/and you’ll have 
/bu:sid/.
Now try it with the subjective pronouns. You’ll say:
I kissed == 
/mæn bu:sidæm/.
You kissed == 
/to bu:sidi/.
Now continue!!
‘To have’ means 
/da:shtæn/.
Delete and you’ll have 
/da:sht/. With subjective pronouns you’ll say:
I had == 
/mæn da:shtæm/.
You had == 
/to da:shti/.
Now continue!
From today, you may go to Persian samples pages to see if you can find any verbs in simple past tense. Do not pronounce the verbs that we have not studied yet. Just try to find the familiar ones.
BOB KOEHL
June 3, 2012 @ 2:52 pm
I am enjoying your lessons,used along with several grammars. But it seems to me that in lesson 11 many of your spoken words seems to include an extra syllable and some are for a different example. I also wish I could hear the examples more than once!
learner
July 15, 2012 @ 2:34 pm
i all the time hear persian people say DARAM not DASHTAM. like pul’ daram, meaning i have money. what is the difference? or is it just not correct?
YuYu
August 11, 2012 @ 3:55 pm
DARAM is the present simple tense, and DASHTAM is the past simple.
hamid
January 6, 2013 @ 7:50 pm
does it mean DARAM is present form of DASHTAM, am i correct ?
Amir
March 22, 2013 @ 10:24 pm
yes DARAM means “I have” DASHTAM means “I had”
leveni
August 2, 2013 @ 10:26 am
Persian root verbs are all the past. So DASHTAM is the root verb of “To Have”. And DASHTAM also means “I had”(past). DARAM means “I have”(present).
But in English our root verbs are all in the present not the past.
Annie
June 27, 2014 @ 2:56 pm
May i saying it correct: man dashtam, tu dashti, shoma dashteed, ma dashteem, aan dasht, oo dasht, eeshan dashtand, anha dashtand
Annie
June 27, 2014 @ 2:57 pm
Am I* :P