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Lesson 3

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Persian	English	Persian	English
befarmãid	help yourself	Tašrif	Honor
xãheš	Request	Tašrif dãštan	To honor with ones presence
Xãheš mikonam	Please	Tašrif dãšteh bašid	Please honor us with your presence
Ci	what	Shãm tašrif dãšteh bašid	Please stay for dinner
Meyl	Desire	Bordan	To take
Daštan	To have	Tašrif bordan	To leave
Dãrid	You have	Tašrif mibarid	You are leaving
Ci meyl dãrid	What would you like	zud	Early
Cãy	Tea	Ce zud	How early
Qahveh	Coffee	Qorbun	Sacrifice
Ya	Or	Qorbun e šomã	Your sacrifice
Shãm	Dinner	Xeyli	Very
dust	Like	Xoš	Happy
dust Daštan	To Like	Gozaštan	To pass
dust Darid	You like	Xoš gozašt	We had a good time
Barã ye	For	Zahmat	Hard work
Barã tun	For you	Dãdan	To give
Dorost kardan	To make	Zahmat dãdim	We gave you trouble, we made you work hard
Dorost konam	I make	Oftadan	To fall
		Oftadid	You fell
		Tu	Into
		Oftadid tu zahmat	You got into a lot of work

Farmudan means "to give an order". Befarmãid is the imperative for Farmudan. You are asking your party to give you an order. Befarmãid is a polite way of saying "help yourself", "enter", "sit down".
You can answer the phone by saying :

Allo ? Befarmãid.

The verb Dãštan (to have) can be used as an auxillary to conjugate other verbs :

dust dãštan	To like
Meyl dãštan	To desire

Qorbun e šomã "May I be your sacrifice", is a polite way of saying "Thank you" !
It is polite to address your party in plural form šomã "you plural".
Bordan is "to take". The imperative root is bar . Here is the conjugation for present tense.

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