Curriculum · Unit 2 · Lesson 13
More Than One: Plurals
کتابا
After this lesson you can pluralize anything (ketâbâ), count things the Farsi way (se tâ nun — no plural after numbers!), ask how many, and order bread by name like a local.
The phrase map
-â
plural
ketâbâ = books
ye
a · one
ye nun
chand tâ?
how many?
every market
ye kam
a little
the hero sentence
se tâ nun
three breads
number + tâ + singular
sib
apple
mive
fruit
shirini
sweets
sangak
the king
pebble-baked
barbari
breakfast gold
thick
lavâsh
paper-thin
everywhere
tâftun
tandoor classic
The dialogue
| Leila | Sâm — mehmuni! | Sam — a mehmuni's coming! |
| Sam | Nun? Ye nun? | Bread? ONE bread? |
| Leila | Na — se tâ nun! Sangak! | No — THREE! Sangak! |
| Sam | Chand tâ? | How many? |
| Leila | Dah tâ? Bist tâ! | Ten? Twenty! |
| Sam | Bist tâ shirini?! | TWENTY sweets?! |
| Leila | Âre — mehmuni-e! | Yep — it's a mehmuni! |
No plural after numbers
English says three breads; Farsi says se tâ nun — the noun stays singular and tâ does the counting. Kinder than English.
tâ — the counting word
You met it in Lesson 7 (do tâ ghahve). Now it's official: number + tâ + thing, every time.
🎧 Speak-along drill · 3 min
Headphones on, out loud, eyes free. Prompt → pause → you speak → native answer. This is where the lesson becomes yours.
Practice
Play the practice game for this lesson — listening rounds, matching, and dialogue replies, all in the real course voices. The PDF has 8 written exercises with an answer key.