Looking at the ezāfe construction from a linguistic perspective, part 1: what is ezāfe and how is it described within a traditional Persian grammatical framework? Introduction The اضافه ezāfe construction is one of the fundamental building blocks of learning Persian grammar, and it deserves some attention. Now you will often hear linguists say that
Persian expressions with body parts 5: دست dast ‘hand’ and پا pā ‘foot’ Persian contains many idiomatic phrases, expressions and compound verbs which utilise the common body parts like سر sar ‘head’, چشم cheshm ‘eye’, دل del ‘heart’, پشت posht ‘back’, and پا pā ‘foot’. These body parts often carry a multitude of different meanings, such as when an
Persian expressions with body parts 4: پشت posht ‘back’ Persian contains many idiomatic phrases, expressions and compound verbs which utilise the common body parts like سر sar ‘head’, چشم cheshm ‘eye’, دل del ‘heart’, پشت posht ‘back’, and پا pā ‘foot’. These body parts often carry a multitude of different meanings, such as when an
Persian expressions with body parts 3: چشم cheshm ‘eye’ Persian contains many idiomatic phrases, expressions and compound verbs which utilise the common body parts like سر sar ‘head’, چشم cheshm ‘eye’, دل del ‘heart’, پشت posht ‘back’, and پا pā ‘foot’. These body parts often carry a multitude of different meanings, such as when an Iranian person
Persian expressions with body parts 2: دل del ‘heart’ Persian contains many idiomatic phrases, expressions and compound verbs which utilise the common body parts like سر sar ‘head’, چشم cheshm ‘eye’, دل del ‘heart’, پشت posht ‘back’, and پا pā ‘foot’. These body parts often carry a multitude of different meanings, such as when an Iranian person
Persian expressions with body parts 1: سر sar ‘head’ Persian contains many idiomatic phrases, expressions and compound verbs which utilise the common body parts like سر sar ‘head’, چشم cheshm ‘eye’, دل del ‘heart’, پشت posht ‘back’, and پا pā ‘foot’. These body parts often carry a multitude of different meanings, such as when an Iranian person
Complicated Calendar Conversions You may have realised already that the Persian-speaking world uses multiple calendar systems. Now, I’m going to be honest with you, converting dates between the Gregorian calendar (January, February, etc.), the Islamic calendar, and the Persian calendar can be a bit of a nightmare. Indeed, it might make you wonder how a
Learn how to use 5 Iranian Persian expressions in spoken conversation that use the word Atash!
For the final instalment of the Using Expressions Day-to-Day: Water series, we bring six Persian expressions used in Iran, with audio and dialogue to improve your everyday speaking and listening, too.
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We bring another five Persian expressions used in Iran, with audio and dialogue to improve your everyday speaking and listening, too.
Another 5 expressions for the Using Expressions Day-to-Day: Water series
Another 5 expressions for the Using Expressions Day-to-Day: Water series
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