Sunday, April 8, 2007

Things (A-F)

account - hesab
act - amal kardan (kon)
addition - jam'
adjustment - tanzim
advertisement - agahi
agreement - movafeghat
air - hava
amount - meghdar
amusement - shukhi
animal - heivan
answer - javab dadab (deh)
apparatus -
approval - movafeghat
argument - da va kardan (kon)
art - honar
attack - hamle, hamle kardan (kon)
attempt - sa'y kardan (kon)
attention - javajjoh
attraction - jazzab
authority -
back -
balance -
base -
behaviour -
belief -
birth -
bit -
bite -
blood -
blow -
body -
brass -
bread -
breath -
brother -
building -
burn -
burst -
business -
butter -
canvas -
care -
cause -
chalk -
chance -
change -
cloth -
coal -
colour -
comfort -
committee -
company -
comparison -
competition -
condition -
connection -
control -
cook -
copper -
copy -
cork -
cotton -
cough -
country -
cover -
crack -
credit -
crime -
crush -
cry -
current -
curve -
damage -
danger -
daughter -
day -
death -
debt -
decision -
degree -
design -
desire -
destruction -
detail -
development -
digestion -
direction -
discovery -
discussion -
disease -
disgust -
distance -
distribution -
division -
doubt -
drink -
driving -
dust -
earth -
edge -
education -
effect -
end -
error -
event -
example -
exchange -
existence -
expansion -
experience -
expert -
fact -
fall -
family -
father -
fear -
feeling -
fiction -
field -
fight -
fire -
flame -
flight -
flower -
fold -
food -
force -
form -
friend -
front -
fruit -

Monday, April 2, 2007

Operations

come - amadan
get - gereftan
give - dadan
go - raftan
keep - negah dashtan
let - ejaze dadan
make - dorost kardan
put - gozashtan
seem - mesle
take - gereftan
be - budan (bash)
do - kardan
have - dashtan
say - goftan
see - didan
send - ferestadan
may - shayad
will -
about - dar bareye
across - obur kardan (kon)
after - ba'd
against - bar zedde
among - beine
at - dar
before - ghabl az
between - beine
by - ba
down - pa'in
from - az
in - dar
off - az
on - ruye
over - balaye
through - az
to - be
under - zire
up - bala
with - ba
as - mesle
for - baraye
of - az
till - ta
than - az
a - yek, ye
the - in
all - hame
any - har
every - har
no - na kheir
other - digar
some - ba'zi
such - chenin
that - an
this - in
I - man
he - u
you - to, shoma
who - ke, ki
and - va, o
because - beraye inke
but - amma, vali
or - ya
if - agar
though - amma
while - dar halike
how - chetowr
when - vaghkt, kei
where - koja
why - chera
again - dobareh
ever - har
far - dur
forward - jelo, pish
here - inja
near - nazdike
now - hala
out - birun
still - aram, hanuz
then - anvaght
there - anja
together - ba ham
well - khub
almost - taghriban
enough - basse
even - hatta
little - kami
much - kami
not - na
only - faghat
quite - nazdike
so - banabar'in
very - kheli
tomorrow - farda
yesterday - diruz
north - shomal
south - jonub
east - mashregh
west - gharb
please - hahesh
yes - bale

Welcome to Persian Words

A site for people interested in learning the Persian language. The approach used here is that of the one for one word subsitution with a basic word list - and the recommendation is that you take the time to learn the substiutions. Once you have mastered equivalent words in Persian you have the basics of the language mastered. At some levels, all language learning works at this level. However, most other methods include more grammar and deconstruction of the language. This approach avoids this complexity initially - in favor of the simplicity of word lists. The lists of words are from the following categories:
Operations
Things
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Qualities
Opposites
These are the categories and words of C.K. Ogden's 'Basic English'.