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Persian Writing – Useful Drills 12

Practice makes perfect!

‘To kiss’ means /bu:sidæn/. Listen!

Boosidan

Delete /nu:n/and you’ll have /bu:sid/. Listen!

Boosid

Now try it with the subjective pronouns. You’ll say:

I kissed == /mæn bu:sidæm/. Listen!

Man boosidam

You kissed == /to bu:sidi/. Listen!

To boosidi

Now continue!!

‘To have’ means /da:shtæn/. Listen!

Dashtan

Delete and you’ll have /da:sht/. With subjective pronouns you’ll say:

I had == /mæn da:shtæm/. Listen!

Man dashtam

You had == /to da:shti/. Listen!

To dashti

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.

Lesson 12

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