Weeks 5 and 6 were spent learning the parts of speech, of course in Dari. Primarily, the focus was on verbs (فعل) and adjectives (مفت). It was really interesting to compare how verbs and adjectives are written in English as compared to Dari. For instance, when dealing with superlatives Dari, two different suffixes are used, as shown in the example below:
good - خوب
better - خوبتر
best - خوبترن
As you can see, the suffixes change as you move up. The word good is simply written as خوب, to say or write better we add the suffix -تر (-er) which results in خوبتر, and, finally, to say or write best we use the suffix -ترن (-est) arriving at خوبترن.
Some examples of verbs are:
to eat - خوردن
to talk - گپ زدن
to get - گرفتن
to see - دىدن
to go - رفتن
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