Breakdown of الان وقت ندارم، بعداً تماس میگیرم.
الانalân
now
وقتvaght
time
داشتنdâshtan
to have
تماس گرفتنtamâs gereftan
to call / to contact
بعداًba'dan
later, afterwards
Questions & Answers about الان وقت ندارم، بعداً تماس میگیرم.
Why does this sentence use بعداً instead of بعد از which we are learning in this lesson?
بعد از means 'after' and needs to be followed by a noun or pronoun (like 'after dinner'). بعداً means 'later' and is used all by itself. The little double-dash symbol at the end of بعداً (pronounced '-an') turns the word into a standalone adverb.
The English translation says 'I will call', but isn't میگیرم present tense?
Yes, میگیرم is the present tense form. In conversational Farsi, the present tense is very frequently used to talk about the near future, just like saying 'I am calling you later' in English. The strict future tense is rarely used in everyday speech.
How does تماس میگیرم translate to 'call'?
It is a compound verb. تماس means 'contact' and میگیرم is the 'I' form of the verb گرفتن (to take or to get). So literally it means 'I take contact', but it is the standard Farsi way to say 'I will call' or 'I will get in touch'.
Why isn't the word من (I) at the beginning of either part of the sentence?
Both verbs here, ندارم (I do not have) and میگیرم (I take), end with the personal suffix -م which means 'I'. Because the verbs already tell us who is doing the action, the pronoun من is usually dropped to sound more natural.
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