Farsi with Neda: Lesson 5
Notes: Combining suffixes
- It is possible to form compounds of possessive suffixes with enclitic copula, e.g. تولّدمه (it is my birthday)
- The enclitic copula is functionally a verb and therefore follows SOV word-order
- Therefore the enclitic copula is the final particle in the sentence.
Conversation 1: How Old Are You?
- علی: نَسیم جان، چند سالته؟
- Nasim dear, how old are you?
- چَنْد
- سال
- year/age
- ـِت
- your
- ـِه
- is
- چند سالته؟
- how old are you? (lit. what is your age?)
- نسیم: سیزده سالمه.
- I'm thirteen.
- … سالمه
- …years old
- علی: تولّدت چه روزیه؟
- What day is your birthday on?
- تَوَلُّد
- birthday
- چه روزیه
- is on which day?
- نسیم: بیست خرداد. تو چند سالته؟
- The twentieth of Khordad. How old are you?
- …ـِ خُرْداد
- nth of Khordad
- علی: تا دیروز چهارده ساله بودم.
- Until yesterday I was fourteen.
- تا
- until
- دیروز
- yesterday
- تا دیروز … بودم.
- until yesterday I was…
- نسیم: یعنی چی؟
- What does that mean?
- یَعْنی…
- that means…
- علی: امروز تولّدمه.
- It's my birthday today.
- اِمْروز
- today
- ـَم
- my
- ـِه
- is
- ـَمِه
- is my
- … تولّدمه
- … is my birthday
- نسیم: مبارکه. یعنی الان پونزده سالته.
- Congratulations. That means you're fifteen now.
- مُبارَکِه
- congratulations
- علی: درسته. الان پونرده سالمه.
- That's right. I'm fifteen now.
- دُرُسْته
- that's right
- الْان
- now
Conversation 2: Who Is This?
- بابک: این آقا کیه؟
- Who is this man?
- کی
- who
- سارا: پدر بزرگمه
- my grandfather
- بُزُرگ
- great/big
- پِدَر
- father
- بابک: خیلی پیره. چند سالشه؟
- He's really old. How old is he?
- پیر
- old
- ـِش
- his (polite)/their
- سالش
- his age
- سارا: نه خیلی پیر نیست. فقط شصت سالشه.
- No, he's not very old. He's only sixty.
- فَقَط
- only/merely
- بابک: واقعاً؟ پس بابات چند سالشه؟
- Really? So how old is your dad?
- واقِعاً؟
- really? (exclaim.)
- پِس
- so (conj.)
- سارا: بابام سی و نه سالشه.
- My father is thirty-nine.
Conversation 3: How Old Is Your Daughter?
- مریم: دخترتون چند سال داره؟
- How old is your daughter?
- دُختَر
- daughter
- ـتون
- your (polite)
- داره
- she has
- بابک: هفت سالشه.
- She's seven.
- مریم: فارسی بلده؟
- Does she speak Farsi?
- بابک: یه کم.
- A little
- کَم
- small, little, low
- یِه
- indefinite article
- مریم: عزیزم اسمت چیه؟
- What's your name my darling?
- عزیز
- darling
- سیما: سیما.
- .Sima
- مریم: چند سالته سیما جان؟
- How old are you dear Sima?
- سیما: هفت سالمه.
- Seven years old.
- مریم: برادر و خواهر هم داری؟
- Do you have brothers and sisters too?
- هَم
- too, as well
- سیما: بله یه برادر و یه خواهر دارم.
- Yes, I have one brother and one sister.
- مریم: چند سالشونه؟
- How old are they?
- سیما: برادرم هفده سالشه ولی خواهرم دوازده سالشه.
- My brother is seventeen but my sister is twelve.