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Farsi · Pronunciation Guide
How do you pronounce "گرفتن" in Farsi?
Say ge-ref-TAN, three syllables, short e's like 'bed', stress on the last syllable.
gereftan
As an infinitive, gereftan stresses its final syllable -tan; the simple past gereft likewise stresses its last syllable, ge-REFT.
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او پول را گرفت.
U pul rā gereft.
He/She took the money.
Listen: او پول را گرفت.
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'او پول را گرفت' (u pul rā gereft, 'He/she took the money') marks پول (pul, 'money') with را as a specific, definite sum being referred to. Gereft is the bare simple-past stem with no ending for third-person singular.
Where English speakers slip
Learners who only learn gereftan's literal meaning 'to take' are often caught off guard by its many idiomatic light-verb compounds — yād gereftan ('to learn', literally 'to take memory'), tasmim gereftan ('to decide') — where the meaning has little to do with physically taking something.