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Lesson 7

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Persian	English	Persian	English
Binande	Viewer	Xãnume Gloria Rohãni	Mrs. Gloria Rohãni
Binandegan	Viewers	xãnande	reader, singer
gerãmi	dear	Az	from
Binandegan e gerãmi, salãm	Hello, dear viewers	sedã	sound
injã	here	parande	bird
Landan	London	bidãr	awake
injã Landan ast	this is London	bidãr šodam	became awake, was awakened
šenavande	listener	guyande	announcer
šenavandegan	listeners	Ferestãdan	to send, to transmit
aziz	dear (from Arabic)	Gereftan	to receive
rãnande	driver	ferestande	sender, transmitter
mãšin	car	girande	receiver
rãnande ye mãšin	driver of car	ferestande ye nãme	sender of the letter
kojã	where	ferestande ye rãdio	radio transmitter
kojã ast (kojã'st)	where is	girande ye nãme	receiver of the letter
rãnandegi	driving	neveštan	to write
Man dar Irãn rãnandegi mikardam	I drove (used to drive) in Iran	benevis	write !
vali	but	nevisande	writer
hanuz	yet, still

e is the relationship preposition, similar to English of, or French de. If the first word ends with a vowel, e becomes ye.
Depending on the context, hanuz can mean both still (an action that started in the past and is still in motion), and yet (an event that has not happened yet).
The suffix hã or ãn indicates plural.
ãn is used only for living beings, hã can be used for both living beings and inanimate objects.
The g that used to end some ancient Persian words, has disappeared in modern Persian. But it reappears in other forms of the word. For example binande is pluralized as binandegãn.
The suffix ande creates an agent noun, a person or thing that does something:

Persian		English
bin		see, imperative root of the verb didan (to see)
bin+ande		viewer
šenav		hear, listen, imperative root of the verb šenidan (to hear)
šenav+ande		listener
rãn		conduct, imperative root of the verb rãndan (to conduct, to drive)
rãn+ande		driver
xãn		read, sing, imperative root of the verb xãndan (to read)
xãn+ande		reader, singer
guy		say, imperative root of the verb goftan
guy+ande		sayer, announcer (as in TV or Radio)
par		fly, imperative root of the verb paridan (to fly)
par+ande		flier, bird
ferest		send, imperative root of the verb ferestãdan (to send)
ferest+ande		sender (as of a letter), transmitter (as of radio or television)
gir		get, imperative root of the verb gereftan (to get, to receive)
gir+ande		receiver (as of a letter, radio, or television)
nevis		write, imperative root of the verb neveštan (to write)
nevis+ande		writer

A noun can be formed by attaching i to the end of the actor pronoun. Note the reappearance of the ancient g.

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