The chronological contrast of the verb between Arabic and Persian languages

Abstract EN

Arabic is one of the most adequate languages in its ability to express details and meticulous characteristics, and this particular efficiency is not only limited to its semantics, but rather goes beyond that to its syntax, such as, the verb and the syntactic constituents that follow it.

in spite of the heavy morphological marking of tenses that is particularly present in many foreign languages such as Persian, which may at first glance seem to be superior to Arabic in its ability to express the aspects of tenses due to the multiplicity of Persian tenses, this study proposes that Arabic is no less able to grasp these aspects through its syntactic devices and many other structural categorizations.

using a descriptive analysis approach, this article attempts to present a contrastive analysis of tenses in Persian and Arabic in order to guarantee more accurate translations between the two languages.

the study concludes that syntactic devices and attributive verbal phrases have a role in defining tenses of the Arabic verbs accurately, and surpassed them in the ability of non-verbs to reveal the tenses significance through the context.