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Questions & Answers about فردا بهش میگم.
Why is the present tense verb میگم used when the sentence means "I will tell her tomorrow"?
In conversational Farsi, the present tense is very commonly used to talk about the future, especially when you have a time word like فردا (tomorrow). The actual formal future tense sounds much too stiff for everyday speech.
How does میگم mean "tell"? Doesn't it usually mean "say"?
Yes, the verb گفتن means "to say". Farsi doesn't have a separate everyday verb for "tell". Instead, you "say to someone". That's why we have the preposition به (to) in this sentence. Literally, it translates to "Tomorrow, I say to her."
How exactly is بهش formed?
بهش is a very common spoken contraction. It combines the preposition به (to) with the third-person singular pronoun suffix ـَش (him/her/it). Instead of saying the formal به او (to him/her), Farsi speakers usually blend it into بهش.
I learned the verb "I say" as میگویم. Why is it written as میگم here?
میگم is the colloquial, spoken form. In everyday speech, the middle part of the stem in verbs like گفتن gets shortened. So میگویم becomes میگم, and میگوید (he/she says) becomes میگه.