بایستن
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See also: پایستن
Persian[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical Persian): IPA(key): /bɑːjistan/
Verb[edit]
Dari Persian | بایستن |
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Iranian Persian | |
Tajik | боистан (boyistan) |
بایستن • (bâyestan) (present stem بای (bây))
Conjugation[edit]
Only the following conjugations now exist:
- باید (bâyad, etymologically third-person singular present, literally “it is necessary”), extremely commonly used as the equivalent to English constructions with "must", "should", "ought to", "have to", etc.
- میبایست (mi-bâyad), synonymous to باید (bâyad) but less common
- بایست (bâyest, etymologically third-person singular past), usually largely synonymous to باید (bâyad) despite the use of the past stem, but less common and somewhat more polite; more pedantic usage may have this mean "should have", "must have", etc., preserving the past tense
- میبایست (mi-bâyest), synonymous to بایست (bâyest)
- بایستی (bâyesti, etymologically second-person singular past) and میبایستی (mi-bâyesti, etymologically second-person singular imperfect), both rather archaic and used to express any past necessity without regard for grammatical person
Derived terms[edit]
- بایستی (bâyesti, “necessity”)