The indicative present imperfective tense is used to describe a durative action in present or future. A verbal form like “miravam” can mean “I go”, “I am going”, “I will go” and “I will be going” depending on the context. The future imperfective is deduced from adverbial clauses that denote a future time reference and duration in the future. Since English does not have imperfective aspect, the future imperfective is translated with “future simple” or “future continuous”.
Examples
| از فردا درس می‌خوانم
Az fardâ dars mixwânam I will study from tomorrow I will be studying from tomorrow |
| از هفته‌ی دیگر، هر روز پیاده به دانشگاه می‌روم
Az hafte-ye digar, har ruz piyâde be dânešgâh miravam From next week, I will walk to the university every day |
Regional Form
In some regional dialects of Persian, there is a dedicated tense for future imperfective. This tense is not used in standard Persian.
| می
(mi-) |
خواستن in
present simple |
Apocopated infinitive of the main verb |
Conjugation of regional form
Simple verbs
- Verb: رفتن (“raftan”; to go)
- Apocopated infinitive: رفت (“raft”)
| 1S | می‌خواهم رفت
mixwâham raft |
|---|---|
| 2S | می‌خواهی رفت
mixwâhi raft |
| 3S | می‌خواهد رفت
mixwâhad raft |
| 1P | می‌خواهیم رفت
mixwâhim raft |
| 2P | می‌خواهید رفت
mixwâhid raft |
| 3P | می‌خواهند رفت
mixwâhand raft |
Compound verbs
- Verb: کار کردن (“kâr kardan”; to work)
- Preverb: کار (“kâr”)
- Apocopated infinitive: کرد (“kard”)
| 1S | کار می‌خواهم کرد
kâr mixwâham kard |
|---|---|
| 2S | کار می‌خواهی کرد
kâr mixwâhi kard |
| 3S | کار می‌خواهد کرد
kâr mixwâhad kard |
| 1P | کار می‌خواهیم کرد
kâr mixwâhim kard |
| 2P | کار می‌خواهید کرد
kâr mixwâhid kard |
| 3P | کار می‌خواهند کرد
kâr mixwâhand kard |