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      In this lesson, you will learn the past perfect tense.
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Vocabulary
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Past perfect tense
- ‹bud› (“he/she had written”)
 
| “the door of the house” | |||||||||||
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| نوشته | بود | ||||||||||
| ← | ‹nevešte› | ‹bud› | |||||||||
| ← | “written” | “(he/she) had” | |||||||||
In spoken Persian, /-e/ of the past participle elides with the copular clitic, making the past perfect sound like the simple past in all but the third singular, where the final /-e/ is still pronounced.
Exercises
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| 2. Using the vocabulary below make 5 simple sentences in the past perfect tense: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Review
In this lesson, you learned the past perfect tense.
Core vocabulary:
 درس16 -les 16 تميز 
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  - جمله بسازيد ـ خشك - جوجه - درخت - Zin maken
      فعل بسازيد كثيف كردن - فهميدن تميز كردن - werkwoord vervoegen | 
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