توانستن

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Persian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Verbal form of توان (tavân, power).

Pronunciation

Readings
Classical reading? tuwānistan, tawānistan
Dari reading? tawānistan
Iranian reading? tavânestan
Tajik reading? tavonistan

Verb

Dari توانستن
Iranian Persian
Tajik тавонистан

توانستن (tavânestan) (present stem توان (tavân))

  1. (auxiliary) to be able; can
    نمی‌تواند با شما برود.
    Nemi-tavânad bâ šomâ beravad. (more literary)
    نمی‌تونه با شما بره.
    Nemi-tune bâ šomâ bere. (more colloquial)
    He can't go with you.
    توانسته‌ای حمام کنی؟
    Tavâneste-i hammâm koni? (more literary)
    تونسته‌ای حموم کنی؟
    Tunesti hamum koni? (more colloquial)
    Were you able to get a bath?

Conjugation

References

  • Cheung, Johnny (2007) Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 2), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 386-7
  • Vullers, Johann August (1855) “توانستن”, in Lexicon Persico-Latinum etymologicum cum linguis maxime cognatis Sanscrita et Zendica et Pehlevica comparatum, e lexicis persice scriptis Borhâni Qâtiu, Haft Qulzum et Bahâri agam et persico-turcico Farhangi-Shuûrî confectum, adhibitis etiam Castelli, Meninski, Richardson et aliorum operibus et auctoritate scriptorum Persicorum adauctum (in Latin), volume I, Gießen: J. Ricker, page 475b
  • Wolff, Fritz (1935) Glossar zu Firdosis Schahname (in German), Berlin: Reichsdruckerei, page 250b