Farsi Negation

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Farsi Negation

Learning the Farsi Negation is very important because its structure is used in every day conversation. The more you master it the more you get closer to mastering the Farsi language. But first we need to know what the role of Negation is in the structure of the grammar in Farsi.

Farsi negation is the process that turns an affirmative statement (I am happy) into its opposite denial (I am not happy). Here are some examples:

Verbs are negated with the particle «na». This particle, being a word of its own, should be written separately but under the current custom of writing, it is written attached to the verb:

• raftam — I went → naraftam (na raftam) — I did not go
• kâr kardam — I worked → kâr nakardam  — I did not work
• budan yâ nabudan — to be or not to be

As you can see from the example above, the structure of the Negation in Farsi has a logical pattern. Locate the Negation above and see how it works with the rest of the sentence in Persian.

List of Negation in Farsi

Below is a list of the Negation and negative expressions in Farsi placed in a table. Memorizing this table will help you add very useful and important words to your Farsi vocabulary.

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