Contents
Authors’ preface to second edition
Introduction
Unit 0:
A quick review of Basic Persian
Unit 1:
Indirect speech
Unit 2:
‘Self’: emphatic, reflexive and possessive
usages of khod
Objective pronouns
Unit 3:
Definite and indefinite, singular and plural:
review and expansion
Vocative case
Unit 4:
Persian equivalents of English modal verbs
More on subjunctive
Unit 5:
More on conditionals
If, unless; otherwise, as if
Unit 6:
Causative form
Optative mood
Past participle as verb
Deleting a similar verb
Regulars on the march
Unit 7:
Impersonal forms
Unit 8:
Position of verbs in the sentence
Verbs of state
Putting on and taking off clothes
To want, to be able to, to know
Unit 9:
More on compound verbs
Ways to avoid passive
Unit 10:
Nouns, adjectives from verbs
Some prefixes and suffixes
Unit 11:
Exclamative form
More on adjectives/adverbs,
comparison of adjectives,
ezāfe
Unit 12:
Correlative conjunctions
More on subordinate clauses
A review of tā
Unit 13:
How to use digar, hanuz, ham,
faghat/tanhā
Unit 14:
Remember/forget, arrange, change,
difference, meaning/‘to mean’
Appendix I:
Language of politeness and courtesy
Appendix II:
Colloquial Persian/ Tehrāni
Appendix III:
Literary, poetical, archaic
Appendix IV:
Good, bad and ugly Persian
Common mistakes
Key to Exercises.
Glossary
(includes all Persian simple verbs).
Index
Saeed Yousef was a senior lecturer of Persian at the University of Chicago, USA, until 2020. He is also a poet and has published books of literary criticism and translations.
Hayedeh Torabi was a lecturer of Persian at the University of Chicago, USA. She is a published writer, essayist and translator.
"As with English, there’s a lot more to Persian than meets the eye, or ear. It needs an all-round practitioner to teach the subtleties of this apparently easy but eloquently idiomatic and multidimensional tongue. Saeed Yousef fits the bill: an experienced teacher, a connoisseur of his own and several other languages, and a poet. His book is an essential vade mecum for all who have decided to make Persian their own." John Perry, Professor of Persian (Emeritus), The University of Chicago, USA
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