2nd Edition
Intermediate Persian A Grammar and Workbook
Intermediate Persian: A Grammar and Workbook comprises accessible grammar exercises in a single volume. Each of the 14 units deals with a particular grammatical point and provides associated exercises to help learners reinforce and consolidate their knowledge. In addition, it features four appendices, covering colloquial, polite, literary and journalistic styles. Intermediate Persian reviews the principles presented in Basic Persian and introduces more-advanced features and structures of the language. User-friendly and engaging, Intermediate Persian is suitable for both class use and independent study. This edition is completely revised with additional features, such as a review chapter and translations of all the examples.
Contents
Authors’ preface to second edition
Introduction
Unit 0:
A quick review of Basic Persian
Unit 1:
Indirect speech
Unit 2:
‘Self’: emphatic, reflexive and possessive
usages of khod
Objective pronouns
Unit 3:
Definite and indefinite, singular and plural:
review and expansion
Vocative case
Unit 4:
Persian equivalents of English modal verbs
More on subjunctive
Unit 5:
More on conditionals
If, unless; otherwise, as if
Unit 6:
Causative form
Optative mood
Past participle as verb
Deleting a similar verb
Regulars on the march
Unit 7:
Impersonal forms
Unit 8:
Position of verbs in the sentence
Verbs of state
Putting on and taking off clothes
To want, to be able to, to know
Unit 9:
More on compound verbs
Ways to avoid passive
Unit 10:
Nouns, adjectives from verbs
Some prefixes and suffixes
Unit 11:
Exclamative form
More on adjectives/adverbs,
comparison of adjectives,
ezāfe
Unit 12:
Correlative conjunctions
More on subordinate clauses
A review of tā
Unit 13:
How to use digar, hanuz, ham,
faghat/tanhā
Unit 14:
Remember/forget, arrange, change,
difference, meaning/‘to mean’
Appendix I:
Language of politeness and courtesy
Appendix II:
Colloquial Persian/ Tehrāni
Appendix III:
Literary, poetical, archaic
Appendix IV:
Good, bad and ugly Persian
Common mistakes
Key to Exercises.
Glossary
(includes all Persian simple verbs).
Index
Biography
Saeed Yousef was a senior lecturer of Persian at the University of Chicago, USA, until 2020. 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.
"As with English, there’s a lot more to Persian than meets the eye, or ear. It needs an all-round practitioner to teach the subtleties of this apparently easy but eloquently idiomatic and multidimensional tongue. Saeed Yousef fits the bill: an experienced teacher, a connoisseur of his own and several other languages, and a poet. His book is an essential vade mecum for all who have decided to make Persian their own."
John Perry, Professor of Persian (Emeritus), The University of Chicago, USA
