More About Pain and Illness

Leyla: Hello and welcome to Learn Persian with Chai and Conversation!

Matt: This week, we’re continuing with our kitchen Persian vocabulary, and learning practical conversations you would have in any household.

Leyla: We’re continuing this week with vocabulary that hopefully you wont’ have to use very often, and that is for when you are not feeling well.

Matt: As always, find previous lesson and bonus materials on our website at www.chaiandconversation.com, with chai spelled CHAI.

Leyla: But enough of that for now, Matt are you ready to begin the lesson/

Matt: Ready!

Leyla: Great, then let’s begin to learn Persian with Chai and Conversation

Leyla: First, let’s do a bit of a recap of the last lesson

So to say I’m not feeling well: halam khoob neest

I have pain: Dard daram

Leyla: We learned a way of saying exactly where you have pain, and that is by saying

saram dard meekoneh

Leyla: Using this structure, you can say many different things, like:

poshtam dard meekoneh

goosham dard meekoneh

Leyla: and so on. There’s another way of saying this. Let’s use the example of saram dard meekoneh. Instead you can say sardard daram. This is more akin to the structure used in English- I have a headache. Saram dard meekoneh is more like My head aches. I have a headache, sardard daram

you can also say

deldard daram

galoo dard daram

goosh dard daram

this is just a different way of saying it

let’s learn some other things that could be wrong:

sorfeh

we learned deldard daram, you could also say,

delam beham khordeh

bala ovordam

sookhtam

sargeejeh daram

feshar khoonam baalast

feshar khoonam payeeneh

Leyla: So if you are at home, and you want to see if there are any remedies for headaches, you can ask:

barayeh sardard cheezee dareem

let’s learn a few different remedies:

ghors

Leyla: so again the question: barayeh sardard cheezee dareem, and answer:

baleh, ghorseh sardard dareem.

kerem

shalgham

nabat

gherghereh namak

bokhoor

Leyla: To end the lesson, let’s try going over the different pains using vocabulary we learned last week, to make sure we retained the information. So again, we learned two different ways of talking about pain- for instance, with a headache you could either say ‘sar dard daram’ or ‘saram dard meekoneh’. So do you remember the word for shoulder Matt?

shooneh

Great, so what is I have shoulder pain using last week’s way of saying it’

shoonam dard meekoneh.

this week:

shooneh dard daram

Leyla: great. How about the same with if your arm hurts. Remember the word for arm and hand are the same.

Matt: dast

Leyla: So both ways of saying you have arm pain. Great. Let’s learn another area that a lot of people have pain in, and that is the knee- zanoo.

Matt: zanoo

So both ways of saying it.

Leyla: Great, and with that we end the lesson!

Matt: As always, thanks so much for joining us for this lesson of Learn Persain with Chai and Conversation.

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