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Persian Writing – Useful Drills 14

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.

Note: Before doing these homeworks, make sure you have learned the previous words completely.

New words:

This = /in/.

In

That = /a:n/.

An

Man = /mærd/.

Mard

Woman = /zæn/.

Zan

To buy = /khæridæn/.

Kharidan

Delete /nu:n/ first. Then combine it with subjective pronouns.

This book = /in keta:b/.

In ketab

That book = /a:n keta:b/.

An ketab

Make sentences: ( Follow the example) : subject+ object + time + verb

Note: You may delete subjects from your sentences.

1- I bought this book yesterday. /mæn in keta:b ra: diru:z khæridæm/.

Man in ketab ra dirooz kharidam

2- She bought this book yesterday.
3- We bought that book today.

4- They saw that man today.

Anha an mard ra emrooz didand

To see = /didæn/.

5- You (plural) saw this woman yesterday.
6- He cleaned this table today.

Note: 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.

Lesson 14

8 Comments

  1. Nadege Drayton
    June 2, 2012 @ 12:19 am

    mæn in keta:b ra: diru:z khæridæm

    I don’t understand how we can have the word “in” and ” ra” in the same phrase. I understand the word “in” means “this”. Doesn’t the word “ra” means “the”? i dont understand those 2 together.

    Thank you for clarifying.
    Nadege

    • Juraj
      June 2, 2012 @ 4:51 pm

      Will be “ra” as the object marker used after all transitive verbs, i.e after dashtan ’have’?
      Tashakor

    • Charanjeet Singh
      July 15, 2012 @ 11:08 am

      Nadege – Don’t see Persian from English point of view ..because ra doesnot means “the” it is just fixed after with every object

  2. Diego
    June 2, 2012 @ 2:23 pm

    hi i’m native speaker
    about “in” you’re right
    but “ra” in persian doesn’t have any meaning
    it just shows you where the object is
    thats all
    you write it
    you say it but you don’t translate it

    hope that helped !

    • Nadege Drayton
      June 2, 2012 @ 8:15 pm

      Thank you Juraj and Diego for your help. Until next time! Nadege

  3. Camille
    July 2, 2013 @ 8:53 pm

    I thought “an” meant “it”. Does it just also mean “that” as well?

    • Jan
      April 6, 2014 @ 6:08 am

      Of course. At least to my knowledge

  4. Raymundo Apodaca
    May 7, 2014 @ 6:09 pm

    ra is just stating a direct object. ketab, a book. ketab ra, the book