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Chapter 5: FARSI
Feature Farsi English Examples of Errors
Verb inflection 6‐7 forms, 2 present tense She talk to me.* / She talks
determined by forms: to me.
subject: I eat
You eat
Mæn (I) He eats
meekhoram We eat
To (you‐ You all eat
informal)/Shomah They eat
(you‐formal)
meekhoree/Shom
ah (you‐
formal/plural)
meekhoreen/mee
khoreed
Oo (He, she, it)
meekhoreh
Ma (We)
meekhoreem
Oona/Anha/Ishan
(they)
meekhoran
Regular past 5‐6 forms, One form for all The simplest form is often
tense determined by subjects used.
subject She walk to the store* /She
walked to the store.
(Farsi & Zared, 2013; Mobaraki, 2007; Yarmohammedi, 1996)
HOME CORNER
Born in Arizona, I moved at a very young age to the small town of Jonesboro,
Arkansas. My sisters and I were first‐generation Americans, and my parents had not yet
received their citizenship. It was the early 90’s when we arrived, and we stood out. Our dark
features were a great contrast to the average person living in this town with a population of
50,000. I learned early on, by the negative reactions people would have when it came out
that I was Iranian, that it was best to just say I was Persian. To be Iranian associated me with
the negative stereotypes associated with the broken relationship between Iran and the U.S.
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To be Persian didn’t mean much of anything to people. In fact, many people assumed it meant
I was from Paris.
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