Persian/Lesson 11

In this lesson, you will learn about direct objects and prepositions in Persian. Dialogue درس 11 ف كيف – tas د فتر – schrift پد ر – vader پذرش – zijn vader مسافرت – reis, vakantie درس – les فراموش – vergeet فردا – morgen بردن – meenemen مي برد – hij neemt mee مادرش – zijn moeder برادرش – zijn broer دفترش – zijn schrift كتابشاست – zijn boek امين برادر اكرم است – Amin is de broer van Akram پدر اكرم فردا به مسافرت مي رود – morgen gaat de vader van Akram op reis امين كتابش را فراموش نمي كند – Amin vergeet het boek امين و اكرم درس را دوست دارند – Amin en Akram leren graag امين كتاب دار – Amin heeft een boek من كيف دارم – Ik heb een tas Direct objects Definite or human object enclitic را râ, colloquially pronounced or /o/ after consonant, /ro/ after vowel. Persian doesn't have a direct article like “the”. In some situations را carries similar meaning, but is less used than "the". Prepositions prepositions: از az from, than, by با bâ with برای barâye for, in order to بی bi without بدون bedun-e without به be to, in, at, on دنبال dombâl-e behind پشت post-e behind نزدیک nazdik-e near ‌ پیش pish-e before, in front of جلو jelo-ye before, in front of روی ruy-e on, on the face of تو tu-ye inside, into در dar in زیر zir-e under Some Persian verbs often are accompanied by prepositional phrases that translate into English as transitive verbs with direct objects, especially common with از az from, than, by and بی bi without. Sentence structure (subject) (definite object را) (prep phrases) (adverbs) (predicate nominative/adjective) verb Notes Persian/Lesson 12 Lesson 12 ( ۱۲ ), Simple present tense