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.I hall be asked پرسیده خواهم شد .Sing.

.thou Shalt be asked پرسیده خواهي شد

.be hall be asked پرسیده خواهد شد

.we Jhall be askedه پرسیده خواهیم شد .Plur

.you hall be asked پرسیده خواهید شد

.they hall be asked پرسیده خواهند شد

Infinitive.

to be asked پرسیده شدن ,Prefent

.to have been asked پرسیده شده بودن,Preterite

Negative verbs are formed by prefixing aj or ; to the affirmative in all the tenfes, as

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ندانم از چه سبب رنگ آشناي نيست سهي قدان سیه چشم ماه سیمارا

I know not why the damfels, tall as cypreffes, with black eyes, bright as the moon, have not the colour of love.

Hafiz.

OF IRREGULAR VERBS.

In the ancient language of Perfia there were very few or no irregularities the imperative, which is often irregular in the modern Perfian, was anciently formed from the infinitive by rejecting the termination. eeden; for originally all infinitives ended in den, till the Arabs introduced their harsh confonants before that fyllable, which obliged the Perfians, who always affected a sweetness of pronunciation, to change the old termination of fome verbs into ten, and by degrees the original infinitives grew quite obfolete: yet they still retain the ancient imperatives and the aorifts which are formed from them. This little irregularity is the only anomalous part of the Perfian language, which, nevertheless, far furpaffes in fimplicity all other languages, ancient or modern, of which I have any knowledge. This remark on the formation of the Perfian imperatives from an obfolete verb, may be useful to those who are curious in ancient dialects; as it will enable them to trace out a confiderable part of the old Perfian language or Pehleviane, which has the fame relation to the modern or Perfick, as the Icelandick has to the Danish, and the Saxon to the English; and which was, perhaps, spoken in the age of Xenophon. This is the language in which the works of Zeratusht or Zoroaster are

preserved,

preserved, and into which the fables of Bidpai or Pilpai were first translated from the Indian: but as we rejected the Saxon alphabet to admit the Roman; fo the Perfians, when they embraced the religion of Mahomet, adopted the characters in which the Alcoran was written, and incorporated into their language a multitude of Arabick words and phrafes.

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The Perfian verbs that form their imperatives, and confequently their aorifts, from obfolete infinitives, may be distributed into the following claffes the old infinitives may be found by adding

eeden to the

imperatives, and the aorifts by adding to them the perfonal terminations.

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