The present collection is an original work reflecting my personal view of Persian grammar. Despite the relatively large number of pages and the extensive coverage in certain topics, I still consider my work a “draft” requiring many more additions and revisions. Please keep checking for updates and let me know your suggestions. Last but not least, all donations are greatly appreciated, big or small.
Introduction
Writing system
- Abjad writing system
- Letters and pronunciation
- Cursive forms of letters
- Vowel marking
- Diphthong marking
- Pronunciation tips
Phonology and phonotactics
- Persian phonology
- Glottal stop
- Syllables and syllabification
- Gemination
- Stress position
- Enclitics
- Vowel hiatus and epenthesis
- Phoneme reduction
Nouns
- Gender of nouns
- Plural of nouns
- Animate and inanimate plurals
- Plural of variety
- Plurality after numbers
- Classifiers and massifiers
Adjectives
- Adjectives
- Nominalized adjectives
- Order of adjectives
- Comparative adjectives
- Superlative adjectives
- Comparison of equality
Grammatical phrases
Articles
Demonstratives
Personal pronouns
Possessives
Cases and adpositions
- Word order
- Adpositions
- Grammatical cases
- The genitive case
- The accusative case
- The dative case
- The ablative case
- The locative case
- The instrumental case
- The vocative case
Numerals
Adverbs
Infinitive and stems
- Infinitive of a verb
- Simple and compound verbs
- Stems of a verb
- Formation of verbs
- Classification of irregular present stems
Participles
- Participles of a verb
- Past active participle
- Past passive participle
- Present active participle
- Present passive participle
- Future active participle
- Future passive participle
Conjugation
Indicative mood
Past indicative
- Perfective past indicative
- Imperfective past indicative
- Past progressive indicative
- Present perfect indicative
- Imperfective present perfect indicative
- Present perfect progressive indicative
- Past precedent indicative
- Imperfective past precedent indicative
- Past precedent progressive indicative
- Past precedent perfect indicative
- Imperfective past precedent perfect indicative
- Past precedent perfect progressive indicative
Present indicative
Future indicative
- Perfective future indicative
- Imperfective future indicative
- Future progressive indicative
- Future perfect indicative
- Future precedent indicative
Subjunctive mood
Present subjunctive
Past subjunctive
- Present perfect subjunctive
- Imperfective present perfect subjunctive
- Past precedent perfect subjunctive
- Imperfective past precedent perfect subjunctive