Musings of Compound Verbs

I was taking some notes and memorizing verbs. My note cards for last night were this:

nevestan (to write) [نِوِشتَن] - 書く (かく)

xaandan (to read) [خواندَن] - 読む (よむ)

zendegi kardan (to live, inhabit) [زِندِگى كَردَن] - 住んでいる (すんでいる)


In PRSN 101 at SFSU, we're using "An Introuction to Persian" by W.M. Thackston [ISBN 978-0-936347-29-5]. It is in Chapter 7, we get to learn about compound verbs, similar to an English verb, "to pick up", where a verb is combined with a non-verbal element to form the verb.

In Korean and Japaense, the mechanism works with the verb "to do" in Korean (hada) and Japnese (suru), such as "to work" (일해요;仕事する) and "to study" (공부해요;勉強する), which are kaar [كار] and dars-xaandan [درس خواندَن] (lit. lesson read).