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Persian Writing – Useful Drills 31

As you know, practice makes perfect! These useful drills present even more words and phrases than covered in 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 fluently.

New words:

To turn on = /roshæn kærdæn/.

To receive = /dærya:ft kærdæn/.

Award = /ja:yezeh/.

Jayezeh

Driver = /ra:nændeh/.

To break = /shekæstæn/.

To tell somebody = /beh somebody goftæn/.

To say = /goftæn/.

President = /ræi:s-e- jomhu:r/.

Raees e jomhur

Also /ræi:s jomhu:r/, without /-e-/ sound.

To resign = /estefa: da:dæn/.

Estefa dadan

Prime minister = /nækhost væzi:r/.

Nakhost vazir

To express hope = /ez ha:r-e- omidva:ri kærdæn/.

Ez har e omid vari kardan

To leave = /tærk kærdæn/.

Taxi = /ta:ksi/.

Taxi driver = /ra:nændeh ye ta:ksi/.

Anything = /chizi:/.

Please translate the following sentences into Persian.

  1. I haven’t turned on the TV.
  2. She has received two awards this year.
  3. Your driver has broken the law.
  4. They haven’t told me.
  5. This lady hasn’t said anything.
  6. The president of this country has resigned.
  7. The prime minister has expressed hope.
  8. My friends have left their country.
  9. I haven’t seen her this week.
  10. He was a taxi driver.

Lesson 31

9 Comments

  1. pervez
    May 3, 2012 @ 9:04 am

    in lesson 31 drills ,why raa has not been used in sentense no.6 after kiswar.any body please explain.regards

    • Hassan H
      May 3, 2012 @ 9:29 pm

      i think i should talk about ‘ra’ again in a separate lesson (many students are struggling with this).
      i don’t know when, but i will definitely do this in the future.
      thanks.

    • Brian
      December 7, 2012 @ 10:23 pm

      Hi, Pervez. The answer is simpler than it might appear at first. Ra is used only with direct objects. If you break the sentence down, keshvar is not a direct object. When you say “The president of this country has resigned,” country is not a direct object of “has resigned,” and therefore will not receive a ra. I hope this helps.

  2. codejamer1
    July 7, 2013 @ 3:24 pm

    When does ‘daadan’ come at the end of a verb in Persian?
    And when does ‘Kardan’ come at the end of a verb?

  3. mohammad mj
    July 16, 2015 @ 10:10 pm

    may I ask a silly question?where’s the “useful drills” page of the previous lesson(30)?when I click on it I find myself in the “Persian samples” page.has it been removed or something?

  4. Aamir Suhail
    February 5, 2016 @ 6:58 am

    Thanx Hassan!!!
    Ur work is really priceless…..!
    I have a question…
    Why in sentence 3 we have “ast” at last but in sentence 8 we have “anad”….i think here also it should be ast….

  5. Gul e Rehna
    June 27, 2016 @ 4:33 am

    why dostanam used in sentence 8 ??? I think there should be used dostham? am I correct?plz tell me