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.
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