Now we will start the lesson on objective endings in Farsi. As we talk,
there are six different endings in Farsi:
م، ت، ش. مان، تان، شان.
When these endings are attached to a noun,
they are functioning as a possessive
adjective. But whenever the same endings are attached to a verb, they are
functioning as an objective ending. So look at the let's look at some
examples. For example, we have the verb
خریدم.
I bought. Now you want to say: I bought it.
So you can add the ending "ش", which is it, and have: خریدمش
خریدمش means I bought it.
So the ending, when it's attached to a verb, it functions as
an objective ending. Another example: The verb خوردم، to eat, now خوردم.
خوردم: I ate. Now if you attach "ش" again, it's
.خوردمش. I ate it. So it's
important. It functions as an objective ending, whenever it is attached
to a verb. Let's look at another example, a compound verb:The verb to like:
دوست داشتن
دوست داری. You like. Now you want to say that you like him or
her, or you like me, or you like them. So you can add that ending to the
first part of the compound verb. So these endings are not attached to the
verbal part of the compound verb. In this example, for example, you can say
دوستشان داری.
It means you like them. So you don't attach the
ending to their verbal part of the compound verb. It should be attached to
the non-verbal part of the compound verb. Another example for the compound
verb: the verb to open. باز کردن. So you want to say that I opened it. So you
have the non-verbal part, and then you have the verbal part: say باز کردیم
We opened. So you want to say that we opened it. You add the ending to
the non-verbal part of the compound verb: بازش کردیم
We opened it.
We review again the lesson. These endings, whenever they
are attached to a verb, they are objective ending. The other
point is that they can only get attached to a verb that is transitive. A transitive
verb is a verb that can have an object. For example the verb to go: رفتن
It's not a transitive verb, because it doesn't need any object.
Or "to sit."
You don't need an object, so you cannot use these endings with an intransitive
verb. And another important point is related to the compound verbs. These
endings are just attached to the non-verbal part of a compound verb. And
the last point is that this structure is just used in spoken Persian. In formal
Persian and in written Persian in books and newspapers, you cannot find this
structure. It is just using a spoken Persian.