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Traditional Grammar Deficiencies in Comprehensive Persian Grammar ( Descriptive Linguistics )

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How do series work? 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 standard 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. The main clause precedes a subordinate clause, often using the familiar Indo-European subordinator ke "that". Persian is one of the few SOV languages to use prepositions.

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Normal sentences are subject-prepositional phrase-object-verb. However, Persian can have a relatively free word order, often called scrambling , because the parts of speech are generally unambiguous, and prepositions and the accusative marker help to disambiguate the case of a given noun phrase.

The scrambling characteristic has allowed Persian a high degree of flexibility for versification and rhyming. In the literary language, no definite article the is used; rather, it is implied by the absence of the indefinite article a, an. However, in the spoken language, the stressed suffix -e is often used as a definite article.

Persian nouns and pronouns have no grammatical gender.

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Arabic adjectives also lose their gender in Persian. Arabic nouns can generally take Persian plural endings, but the original form is sometimes more common. The most common plural form depends on the individual word.

There are two cases in Persian: The other oblique cases are marked by prepositions.

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