SDLC 110 - Journal Entry 13 - Rein

[Christopher Carl Rein]

This week’s goals were to learn about psychological verbs, which are a class of compound verbs in Persian that are declined, for the verbal aspect, in the third person singular, but use a personal pronoun attached to the nonverbal component of the compound verbs. This construction is somewhat analogous to saying something such as “my liking is for pizza” instead of “I like pizza.” They are strange to me, but they are common, especially in colloquial speech. I am realizing now that several of the conjugations that Arya uses seem to fit this form. When I speak with her next, I will have to record her speaking and see if they match this particular conjugation format.