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When discussing social pressures, moral obligations, or external forces, you often need to express that someone was *compelled* or *forced* to take action. Formal Farsi uses specific verbs to convey this causation, mapping the relationship between the force, the person affected, and the resulting action.

### Compelling Action: واداشتن

The verb **واداشتن** means "to compel" or "to force." The standard structure for compelling someone to do something is:
[Subject] + [Direct Object] + **را** + **به** + [Action] + **واداشتن**

Because the person (or group) being forced is the direct object of the sentence, they are immediately followed by the direct object marker **را**. The action they are forced into is introduced by the preposition **به**.

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### Forcing Action: مجبور ساختن

Another common formal construction uses the compound verb **مجبور ساختن**. You may already know **مجبور کردن** (to force or oblige) from everyday speech. In formal, academic, or journalistic registers, the everyday light verb **کردن** is frequently replaced with **ساختن** (literally "to make" or "to build") to elevate the tone.

The grammatical structure remains exactly the same:
[Subject] + [Direct Object] + **را** + **به** + [Action] + **مجبور ساختن**

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### Nouns and Long Infinitives

What exactly follows the preposition **به**? The "action" that someone is forced into must act as a noun. Most often, this is a standard action-noun, such as "suppression" or "conformity."

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If you need to express forcing someone to perform an action that doesn't map perfectly to a simple noun, you can use the "long infinitive." This is simply the full dictionary form of the verb ending in **ن**, which functions as a gerund (similar to the English "-ing" form or "to [verb]").

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Causation and compulsion (vâdâshtan)

adjective

adverb

conjunction

determiner

interjection

noun

numeral

particle

phrase

prefix

preposition

pronoun

sentence

suffix

verb

Singular pronouns and copula (man, -am)

Plural pronouns and copula (mâ, -im)

Subject pronoun omission

Singular demonstratives (in, ân)

Plural demonstratives (inhâ, ânhâ)

Independent copula (hastam, hast)

Negative present copula (nistam, nist)

Yes/No questions (âyâ)

Regular plurals (-hâ)

Animate plurals (-ân)

Indefiniteness (yek)

Indefinite marker (-i)

Describing nouns (-e / -ye)

Possession (-e / -ye)

Singular possessives (-am, -at, -ash)

Plural possessives (-emân, -etân, -eshân)

Basic prepositions (dar, be, az, bâ)

Spatial prepositions (ru-ye, zir-e...)

Numbers 1 to 10 (yek, do, se...)

Numbers and singular nouns

Numbers 11 to 20 (yâzdah, davâzdah...)

Counting by tens to 100

Telling time (sâ'at)

The verb to have (dâram)

Negative to have (nadâram)

Basic word order (SOV)

Infinitives and present stems (-an)

Present indicative (mi-)

Negative present indicative (nemi-)

Compound verbs

Question words (che, kojâ)

How many (chand)

The definite object marker (râ)

Object pronouns (man râ, to râ)

Singular commands (be-)

Formal and plural commands (be- ... -id)

Negative commands (na-)

The present subjunctive (be-)

The negative present subjunctive (na-)

Must (bâyad)

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Forming the past stem

The simple past of to be (budan)

The simple past tense

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Attached object pronouns on verbs (-am, -at, -ash)

Comparative adjectives (-tar)

Basic conjunctions (va, ammâ, yâ)

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Indefinite pronouns (kasi, chizi, jâyi)

Negative indefinite pronouns (hich-kas, hich-chiz, hich-jâ)

Reciprocal pronouns (hamdigar, yekdigar)

Reflexive pronouns (khod-)

Reflexive direct objects (khod râ)

Emphatic pronouns (khod)

The quantifier every (har)

The quantifier all (hame)

The quantifier some (ba'zi)

Another and other (-i digar)

Which (kodâm)

How much (cheghadr)

Comparisons of equality (mesl-e)

Superlative adjectives (-tarin)

Irregular comparatives and superlatives

Ordinal numbers (-om)

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Fractions and percentages

Prepositions of theme (dar mored-e)

Prepositions of time (ghabl az, ba'd az)

Preposition of exclusion (bedun-e)

Resultative conjunctions (banâbarin, pas)

Hortative construction (biyâ, biyâyid)

The present progressive tense (dâram mi-)

The past continuous tense (mi-)

Negative past continuous (ne-mi-)

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The past participle (-e)

Present perfect tense (-e-am, -e-ast)

Negative present perfect (na-)

Question	Answer
conformity / adaptation	انطباقentebâgh
norm	هنجارhanjâr
to compel / to force	واداشتنvâdâshtan
Society compels us to conform to the norms.	جامعه ما را به انطباق با هنجارها وامی‌دارد.jâme'e mâ râ be entebâq bâ hanjârhâ vâmidârad.
isolation	انزواenzevâ
hypocrisy	ریاکاریriyâkâri
Did the fear of isolation compel you to hypocrisy?	آیا ترس از انزوا تو را به ریاکاری واداشت؟âyâ tars az enzevâ to râ be riyâkâri vâdâsht?
custom / social norm	عرفorf
sacrifice	فداکاریfedâkâri
to make (causative light verb)	ساختنsâkhtan
It is said that custom forces women into sacrifice.	گفته می‌شود که عرف، زنان را به فداکاری مجبور می‌سازد.gofte mishavad ke 'orf, zanân râ be fedâkâri majbur misâzad.
discrimination	تبعیضtab'iz
Due to discrimination, managers forced the employees into silence.	به دلیل تبعیض، مدیران کارمندان را به سکوت مجبور ساختند.be dalil-e tab'iz, modirân kârmandân râ be sokut majbur sâkhtand.
scandal	رسواییrosvâyi
suppression / repression	سرکوبsarkub
Fear of scandal compelled him to suppress the truth.	ترس از رسوایی، او را به سرکوب حقیقت واداشت.tars az rosvâ'i, u râ be sarkub haqiqat vâdâsht.
Because he was afraid of isolation, he surrendered to the norms.	او چون از انزوا می‌ترسید، تسلیم هنجارها شد.u chon az enzevâ mitarsid, taslim-e hanjârhâ shod.
We had to hide this scandal.	ما باید این رسوایی را پنهان می‌کردیم.mâ bâyad in rosvâyi râ penhân mikardim.
Custom has never forced anyone to suppress others.	عرف هرگز کسی را به سرکوب دیگران مجبور نساخته است.orf hargez kasi râ be sarkub-e digarân majbur nasâkhte ast
You had to adapt to this hypocrisy.	شما باید با این ریاکاری سازگار می‌شدید.shomâ bâyad bâ in riyâkâri sâzgâr mishodid.
This sacrifice compelled the mother to endure discrimination.	این فداکاری، مادر را به تحمل کردن تبعیض واداشت.in fedâkâri, mâdar râ be tahammol kardan tab'iz vâdâsht.
Society compelled the people to conformity.	جامعه مردم را به انطباق واداشت.jâme'e mardom râ be entebâq vâdâsht.