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Basic Persian - Saeed Yousef, Hayedeh Torabi

Basic Persian

A Grammar and Workbook
Buch | Hardcover
276 Seiten
2020 | 2nd edition
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-20976-6 (ISBN)
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This fully revised second edition of Basic Persian: A Grammar and Workbook comprises an accessible reference grammar and related exercises in a single volume.

This book presents twenty grammar units, covering the core material which students would expect to encounter in their first year of learning Persian. Grammar points are followed by multiple examples and exercises which allow students to reinforce and consolidate their learning.

Key features include:

• a clear, accessible format

• many useful language examples

• jargon-free explanations of grammar

• abundant exercises with full answer key

• a glossary of Persian-English terms

• a subject index

Rigorous yet engaging, Basic Persian is suitable for both class use and independent study, making it an ideal grammar reference and practice resource for both beginners and students with some knowledge of the language.

Saeed Yousef is Senior Lecturer of Persian at the University of Chicago, USA. He is also a poet and has published books of literary criticism and translations. Hayedeh Torabi was a Lecturer of Persian at the University of Chicago, USA. She is a published writer, essayist and translator.

Contents

Introduction

Unit 1

The Alphabet

Unit 2

Nouns and adjectives

Singular and plural

The connector ezāfe

Unit 3

Numbers

Demonstrative adjectives

Demonstrative pronouns

Unit 4

Pronouns

Present tense: to be and to have

Unit 5

Simple present tense: other verbs

Present progressive with dāshtan

Unit 6

Definite and indefinite (1)

Attributive -i suffix

Unit 7

Transitive and intransitive

Direct and indirect objects

Definite and indefinite (2): rā

Compound verbs

Unit 8

Comparison of adjectives

Adjectives as nouns

Question words

Telling the time

Some distributives / quantifiers

‘Double negative’

Unit 9

Imperative

Unit 10

Infinitive - its uses

Past and present stems

Unit 11

Future tense

Unit 12

Simple past tense

Past progressive tense

Unit 13

Past participle

Perfect tenses

Unit 14

Subjunctive

(Present or simple subjunctive)

Unit 15

Perfect (or past) subjunctive

Unit 16

Conditionals and wishes.

Unit 17

From prepositions to conjunctions

Unit 18

Tense in complex sentences:

Time clauses

Unit 19

Relative clauses

Unit 20

Passive

Key to exercises

Persian-English glossary

Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Routledge Grammar Workbooks
Zusatzinfo 88 Tables, black and white
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 690 g
Themenwelt Schulbuch / Wörterbuch Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaft
ISBN-10 0-367-20976-4 / 0367209764
ISBN-13 978-0-367-20976-6 / 9780367209766
Zustand Neuware
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