This is a lesson about colloquial form of past continuous in Farsi. We already
talked about past continuous in Farsi. The verb می رفتم.
It is the
past continuous, means I was going. But in Farsi, there is another way to express the
same concept, but it's used in colloquial Farsi, not in formal or written Farsi.
That is conjugating the past continuous with the past simple of the
verb "to have." so می رفتم,
the colloquial form of it is داشتم می رفتم.
داشتم می رفتم
I was going...The past continuous was می رفتم.
می رفتی.
می رفت.
می رفتیم.
می رفتید.
And می رفتند.
Now if we want to conjugate this one, we conjugate both parts -
داشتم می رفتم.
داشتی می رفتی.
داشتیم می رفتیم.
داشتم می رفتم.
داشتی می رفتی.
داشت می رفت.
The third person.
Then the first person plural:
داشتیم می رفتیم.
داشتید می رفتید.
داشتند می رفتند.
As you can see, you should
conjugate both parts. Another example: for example می خوردم.
I was eating. And you will conjugate it:
داشتم می خوردم.
داشتی می خوردی.
داشت می خورد.
داشتیم می خوردیم.
داشتید می خوردید.
داشتند می خوردند.
So as I said, this one is more colloquial.
In colloquial Farsi, people use this one. There is a slight difference in
meaning, also: this mainly implies that you were in the middle of
an action and something else happened. For example:
داشتم صحبت می کردم، تلفن زنگ زد.
You are saying that you were in the middle of talking:
داشتم صحبت می کردم.
I was talking. I was in the middle of that
action that the telephone rang. So:
داشتم صحبت می کردم، تلفن زنگ زد.
When you want to know if there is an object, the object comes in between
these two parts. Between داشتن and صحبت کردن,
Or something else.
Let's look at this example--Let me write it with another color.
داشتم پیتزا می خوردم، او آمد.
I was eating pizza [when] he or she came. As you can see Pizza is the object.
We don't say
پیتزا داشتم می خوردم.
People say that :
داشتم پیتزا می خوردم.
Pizza comes in between these two parts:
داشتم پیتزا می خوردم، او آمد.
So there are two points: first, you need to conjugate both parts the same:
داشتم می رفتم.
داشتم می خوردم.
داشتی می خوردی.
Another point is that the meaning is slightl
different. You want to express that specifically you were in the middle of
an action that something else happened:
داشتم در خانه کار می کردم، پدرم آمد.
I was working at home, I was in the middle of that action, and
then my father came. So I was working and my father entered the
house. So that was the lesson about the colloquial form of past continuous in Farsi.