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.shoodu boodem شده بودیم .shoodu boodam شده بودم .shoodu boodee شده بودي .shoodu booded شده بودید .shood bood شده بود .shoodu boodund شده بودند

Second Future. I will be, &c.

.khwahum shood خواهم شد .khwahem shood خواهیم شد .khoahee shood خواهي شد .khawahed shood خواهید شد .khawahund shood خواهند شد .khoahud shood خواهد شد

I shall have been, &c.

.shoodu bashem شده باشیم

باشیم

Compound Future.

.shoodu bashum شده باشم

.shoodu bashed شده باشید .shoodu bashee شده باشي .shoodu bashud شده باشد .shooda bashund شده باشند

THE DIFFERENT CLASSES OF VERBS,

AND

THE ANOMALIES IN THE AORIST.

PERSIAN grammarians arrange the verbs under eleven classes, there being no verb in this language but what has one of the following eleven letters preceding the sign of the infinitive, viz.

The verb intransitive, or neuter, they call lazimee;

and the transitive, active, or causal

CLASS I. LETTER .

لازمي

mootuuddee.

After forming the aorist, by dropping the two last letters

of the infinitive, and adding its own sign the preceding is

In irregulars, called jl shaz, the 1, instead of being drop

ped is permuted into 8, thus:

gol dadun, To give.

A dihud.

CLASS II. LETTER ¿·

When precedes the sign of the infinitive it is changed for j

takhtum, To run fast, also to assault. ; tazud.

.goodakhtun, To melt کداختن

An imperfect verb is called

.goodazud کدازد

سختن

mooqtuzub; as

sookhtun, to weigh, which has only the infinitive.

ر

CLASS III. Letter

precedes the sign of the infinitive, it is retained to

When

In the above examples, both the aorist and the preter consist of the same letters, but are accented differently, thus:

Preter boord, aorist burud; it being an invariable

برد برد

rule that in the aorist, the preceding sign must be accented

There are also two transitive verbs in common use,

koonaneedun, and ja kurandun, neither of which are found in any good author.