Word Order
English uses the Subject-Verb-Object ("SVO") word order, e.g., "Your father was a brave man." Persian uses a Subject-Object-Verb ("SOV") order: "pedareh shomA mardeh shojAi bud" - "Your father a man brave was." What are the implications? How does this complicate translation? How can we get into each mode of word order?
Word Order - SOV
ترتيب واژه ها
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by Rezwan on 12/13 at 08:06 PM
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Persian is read from right to left, English from left to right. If an English speaker flips over a sentence made from Persian magnets and reads it from left to right they will be reading the sentence backwards. Not to panic! They will still get the idea of what the sentence is about.
In fact, reading the sentence correctly from right to left may be more confusing to them than reading it backwards. This is because Persian word order is different from English in two key ways.
Read Persian from right to left
زبان فارسى از راست به چپ خوانده مى شود
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by Rezwan on 12/12 at 09:41 PM
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To help you visualize, the line below is “Read Persian from Right to Left” written from right to left:
