I formatted the learning activity in word document and emailed it to my sister to see if she could successfully conjugate verbs in Farsi. She is now a Spanish teacher, but learned some Arabic when she attended an Islamic primary school in Washington, D.C. Although, she could recognize the similar alphabet, she was unfamiliar with Dari. Based on my instructions, she was able to conjugate the verbs correctly for all pronouns with the exception of "they". She added an extra "nun" and "dol." Verb conjugation is my strong point and I learned conjugations based on simple instructions.
Learning Activity
Goal: To be able to conjugate verbs in the past tense and form simple sentences.
- There are six pronouns used in Dari, find them below along with a phonetic spelling.
من - (man) “I”
شما -(shoma) “You” (formal)
تو -(tu) “You” (informal)
ما –(mo) “We”
او – (o) “He/She/It”
آنه (oanha) “They”
- In the English language, we deal with irregularity of verbs when it comes to conjugations, which complicates the learning process. However; past tense verbs in Dari are regular as far as I can tell.
- Below, you will find the traditional suffixes for verbs based on the associate pronoun.
- من Drop “ن” and add “م”
- شما Drop “ن” and add “ید”
- تو Drop “ن” and add “ی”
- ما Drop “ن” and add “یم”
- او Drop “ن”
- آنه Add “د”
Find an example below of a past tense verb conjugation
دیدن : TO SEE
من دیدم
تو دیدی
شما دیدید
ما دیدیم
او دید
آنها دیدند
Now conjugate the verb رفتن meaning “ to come” for all six pronouns.
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