![]() The present tense has a range of meanings (habitual, progressive, punctual, historic). 'I have done' etc.), but often in an inferential or reportative sense ('apparently I had done' etc.), similar to the perfect tense in Turkish. ![]() These perfect tenses are used sometimes much as the English perfect tense (e.g. ![]() A series of past tenses ( past simple, imperfect, and pluperfect) is matched by a corresponding series of perfect tenses ( perfect simple, perfect continuous, and perfect pluperfect - the last of these made by adding a perfect ending to the pluperfect tense). The greatest variety is shown in tenses referring to past events. There are fewer tenses in Persian than in English. The 2nd and 3rd person plural are often used when referring to singular persons for politeness. Persian verbs are inflected for three singular and three plural persons. Another irregularity is that the verb 'to be' has no stem in the present tense. The main irregularity is that given one stem it is not usually possible to predict the other. gir, gereft 'take, took', nevis, nevešt 'write, wrote', deh, dād 'give, gave' etc.) it is possible to derive all the other forms of almost any verb. From the two stems given in dictionaries (e.g. Persian verbs ( Persian: فعلهای فارسی, romanized: Fe’lhā-ye fārsi, pronounced ) are very regular compared with those of most European languages.
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