Activity: Structure of Persian

[Stallone Mannan]

Persian is an SOV language which is very helpful for beginner learners because when we try to translate a sentence in English into Persian, we tend to want to translate in an order of SOV. For example: The boy went to school. We would first think, how do we translate ‘boy’ into Farsi? There are many more nouns (which serve as objects) then there are verbs, so we would think first of how to translate the object ‘school.’ As a beginner, we would probably first learn some basic verbs which we will use over and over again, but learn many more nouns to use as subjects and objects. The order of SOV is therefore easy for beginners to translate to and learn.