Persian grammar

Persian grammar (Persian: دستور زبان فارسی‎‎) is the grammar of the Persian language, whose dialectal variants are spoken in Iran, Afghanistan and Tajikistan. It is similar to that of many other Indo-European languages. The language became a more analytical language around the time of Middle Persian, with fewer cases and discarding grammatical gender. The innovations remain in Modern Persian, which is one of the few Indo-European languages to lack grammatical gender.

While Persian has a subject-object-verb (SOV) word order, it is not strongly left-branching. However, because Persian is a pro-drop language, the subject of a sentence is often not apparent until the end of the verb, at the end of a sentence.

Persian in some ways resembles an object-verb-subject (OVS) language, especially for second-language learners. Verb endings can be thought of as a form of pronoun.

The main clause precedes a subordinate clause, often using the familiar Indo-European subordinator ke ("that").

The interrogative particle āyā (آیا), that asks a yes-no question, in written Persian, appears at the beginning of a sentence. Grammatical modifiers, such as adjectives, normally follow the nouns they modify by using the ezāfe, but they occasionally precede nouns. Persian is one of the few SOV languages to use prepositions. The only case marker in the written language, rā (را) (in the spoken language, ro or o), follows a definite direct object noun phrase.

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