{"id":86,"date":"2008-07-02T15:25:44","date_gmt":"2008-07-02T20:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/persian_online_resources\/?page_id=86"},"modified":"2009-04-16T14:26:43","modified_gmt":"2009-04-16T20:26:43","slug":"demonstratives","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/persian_online_resources\/demonstratives\/","title":{"rendered":"Demonstratives"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Demonstrative Adjective:<\/strong> When any of the demonstratives \u0627\u06cc\u0646 in<\/em> \u2018this\u2019 and \u0622\u0646 \u0101n <\/em>\u2018that, it\u2019 accompany a noun, functioning as an adjective would, then it is called a demonstrative adjective. In Persian they are invariably singular, even when they modify a plural noun. Compare and contrast the following Persian and English sentences:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
this book<\/td>\nin ket\u0101b<\/em><\/td>\n[tag resources demonstratives_01a]\u0627\u06cc\u0646 \u06a9\u062a\u0627\u0628[\/tag]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
that notebook<\/td>\n\u0101n daftar<\/em><\/td>\n[tag resources demonstratives_02a]\u0622\u0646 \u062f\u0641\u062a\u0631[\/tag]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
these books<\/td>\nin ket\u0101b h\u0101<\/em><\/td>\n[tag resources demonstratives_03]\u0627\u06cc\u0646 \u06a9\u062a\u0627\u0628 \u0647\u0627[\/tag]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
those notebooks<\/td>\n\u0101n daftar h\u0101<\/em><\/td>\n[tag resources demonstratives_04]\u0622\u0646 \u062f\u0641\u062a\u0631\u0647\u0627[\/tag]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

The Demonstrative Pronoun:<\/strong> When the demonstrative replaces a noun (as a pronoun normally does), it is referred to as the demonstrative pronoun. In this case, they are pluralized when necessary, as any pronoun would:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
This is a man.<\/td>\nin mard ast<\/em><\/td>\n[tag resources demonstratives_05].\u0627\u06cc\u0646 \u0645\u0631\u062f \u0627\u0633\u062a[\/tag]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
That is a woman.<\/td>\n\u0101n zan ast<\/em><\/td>\n[tag resources demonstratives_06].\u0622\u0646 \u0632\u0646 \u0627\u0633\u062a[\/tag]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
These are men.<\/td>\nin mard hastand<\/em><\/td>\n[tag resources demonstratives_07].\u0627\u06cc\u0646 \u0647\u0627 \u0645\u0631\u062f \u0647\u0633\u062a\u0646\u062f[\/tag]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Those are women.<\/td>\n\u0101n h\u0101 zan hastand<\/em><\/td>\n[tag resources demonstratives_08].\u0622\u0646 \u0647\u0627 \u0632\u0646 \u0647\u0633\u062a\u0646\u062f[\/tag]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

A generic noun is invariably singular even when it is modified by a plural demonstrative pronoun:<\/p>\n

\n[tag resources demonstratives_09].\u0627\u06cc\u0646 \u0632\u0646 \u0627\u0633\u062a [\/tag]
\nin zan ast<\/em>
\n “This is (a) woman.” <\/p>\n

[tag resources demonstratives_10].\u0627\u06cc\u0646 \u0647\u0627 \u0632\u0646 \u0647\u0633\u062a\u0646\u062f[\/tag]
\nin h\u0101 zan hastand <\/em>
\n“These are women.” <\/p>\n

[tag resources demonstratives_11].\u0627\u06cc\u0646 \u067e\u0633\u0631 \u062f\u0627\u0646\u0634 \u0622\u0645\u0648\u0632 \u0627\u0633\u062a[\/tag]
\nin pesar d\u0101ne\u0161 \u0101muz ast<\/em>
\n“This boy is (a) student.” <\/p>\n

[tag resources demonstratives_12].\u0622\u0646 \u067e\u0633\u0631\u0647\u0627 \u062f\u0627\u0646\u0634 \u0622\u0645\u0648\u0632 \u0647\u0633\u062a\u0646\u062f [\/tag]
\n \u0101n pesar h\u0101 d\u0101ne\u0161 \u0101muz hastand<\/em>
\n “Those boys are students.”<\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Demonstrative Adjective: When any of the demonstratives \u0627\u06cc\u0646 in \u2018this\u2019 and \u0622\u0646 \u0101n \u2018that, it\u2019 accompany a noun, functioning as an adjective would, then it is called a demonstrative adjective. In Persian they are invariably singular, even when they modify a plural noun. Compare and contrast the following Persian and English sentences: this book […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":289,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-86","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/persian_online_resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/86","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/persian_online_resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/persian_online_resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/persian_online_resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/289"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/persian_online_resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":39,"href":"https:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/persian_online_resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/86\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3566,"href":"https:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/persian_online_resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/86\/revisions\/3566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/persian_online_resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}