Now we will start a lesson on Persian short vowels. There are three short
vowels in Persian. The first one is "ah,"
the second one "eh," and the third one is "oh." "Ah, eh, oh." So the reason I have
written the "ah" above the line is that if we imagine that the line is a word, "ah" comes
above the world and "eh" comes underneath and "oh" comes again above the line. For
example, we have the word "بد". If we want to put the vowel, which is the "ah" sound, it's there.
"Bad: ah, bad". Another one:
"سر" means head So the vowel should come here: "سر"
Another one: "در". So the vowel should come here. Now if we want to have a word
with the "eh" sound, so we have:
This word is pronounced "beh-tar." So it has two short vowels: "eh" and "ah". So it
comes underneath, like here. "بهتر". Or for example, the word that we know: کتاب
If you want to put the vowel for this word, you should put the "eh" sound here: keh.
کتاب، کتاب.
Now "oh" sound:
"شما", for putting its vowel we should put it above ش.
"شما". for example
the word for God:
خدا
If we want to put the vowel for this word, we should put it above خ
خدا
For example, another one: if we have the country: گرجستان
So here we have two short vowels: گرجستان
"Oh" and "eh" sounds. Wo we put "oh" on
top of "گ": go. Then "جستان". The "eh" sound should come underneath "ج":
گرجستان
Or for example, the country "عراق". So we have one short vowel: "ah". The "ah" sound." So
we put the "ah" on top of it: "عراق". So as you see, we have three short vowels: "ah,
eh, oh." "Ah" comes above the word, like:
بد، سر، در
"eh" comes underneath the character, like here:
بهتر، کتاب
And "oh" comes above the character, like here:
"شما" means you plural, or
"خدا" means God