AboutBehzad Expertise I can answer questions about the usage and meaning of Persian words, proverbs, and idioms asked in Persian or English. Controversial grammatical issues are beyond my knowledge. In addition, I cannot corroborate my answer to a question about newly coined slang words.
PLEASE do not ask me to translate more than 1 or 2 sentences.
Experience Persian language is my mother tongue; however, my knowledge is remarkably more than a mere native speaker.
Assumptions can be dangerous if incorrect, so if it’s okay I'd like to check this one with you.
According to my understanding, “-ing” as the present participle is “-ande” in Persian. So, crying = نالنده and laughing = خندنده.
I hope that's right so far. My problem is that you also seem to have forms in –a:n such as نالان and
خندان so how do these forms in –a:n differ from those in –ande, please?
I'd be very grateful for sample sentences to illustrate these.
BTW, are any of the above forms used as names in Persian? Turkish has both Nalan and Handan as girls' names.
All the best,
Simon
Answer Hello Simon,
I am not sure how to replythis question, but as a native speaker I have the feeling that –a:n is something like –ing and –ande is like –er in English. For example, ra:nande is translated to driver, porsande is translated to questioner, and porsa:n is translated to questioning. However, as you see for driving, not with all the words are these suffixes used normally; for instance, ra:na:n or bi:na:n is quite strange although it is possible to find it in Persian dictionaries. Likewise, I cannot use khandande in a normal sentence though khandande is not a weird word for a Persian-speaking person.
Examples:
1-Ali: “ra:nandeie “ma:shi:ni bo:d ke “barandeie” mosa:beghe shod.
1-Ali was the “driver” of the car that won (that was the “winner” of) the race.
2-amva:je (mojha:ie) khoro:sha:n di:va:neva:r khodra: be gha:iegh mi:zadand
2-roarig waves hurled themselves madly at the boat.
(the second example is quoted from Aryanpur Dictionary)
Many times –a:n makes an adverb:
3- o: khoshha:l va khanda:n a:mad
3- She came happily and laughingly.
The only name that I can remember following these structures is “po:ia:n” which means “active and dynamic”.
