فروشنده گفت: «میتوانید با کارت پرداخت کنید و رسید را نگه دارید.»

فروشنده means seller, salesperson, or shop assistant, depending on context.

Persian does not have definite and indefinite articles like English the and a, so فروشنده گفت can mean either the seller said or a seller said. In this context, English naturally uses the seller said.

گفت is the simple past form of گفتن, meaning to say or to tell.

So فروشنده گفت literally means the seller said.

It is a very common past-tense form and is often one of the first irregular-looking verbs learners notice, because the dictionary form is گفتن but the past stem is گفت.

Because this sentence uses direct speech.

Persian can introduce a quotation with گفت: just like English said:. After that, the exact words are given inside quotation marks.

If it were indirect speech, you could use که, for example:

فروشنده گفت که می‌توانید با کارت پرداخت کنید.

That would mean something like The seller said that you can pay by card.

They are Persian quotation marks, often called guillemets.

They work like English quotation marks and are commonly used in formal Persian writing to show direct speech or a quoted phrase.

So:

فروشنده گفت: «... »

is the Persian equivalent of:

The seller said: ...

The standard spelling is می‌توانید.

The version میتوانید is a very common typing simplification where the writer leaves out the half-space and sometimes other small orthographic details. Both are understood the same way.

For learners, it is best to recognize all of these as the same word:

• می‌توانید — standard
• می توانید — common nonstandard spacing
• میتوانید — common casual typing

They all mean you can.

می‌توانید is from توانستن, meaning to be able to / can.

Here it means you can.

More specifically, it is:

• present tense
• second person plural
• also used as polite singular

So Persian uses this one form both for:

• you all can
• you can when speaking politely to one person

Because Persian often uses the plural form as a polite form of you, just like some other languages do.

So می‌توانید and کنید / دارید may refer to:

• more than one person, or
• one person in a respectful or polite way

In a shop, this is very normal. A salesperson speaking to one customer politely would often use this form.

After می‌توانید, Persian commonly uses a subjunctive-style verb form for the action that follows.

So:

• می‌توانید ... پرداخت کنید
• می‌توانید ... نگه دارید

This is the normal structure for can + verb.

You can think of it as:

• می‌توانید = you can
• پرداخت کنید = pay
• نگه دارید = keep

So the full structure means you can pay ... and keep ...

Because با means with or by means of.

So:

• با کارت = with a card / by card

This is the natural Persian way to express the method of payment.

Also, کارت here is a bare noun, which is very normal in Persian. It does not need an article to mean a card or card in a general sense.

پرداخت کردن is a very common way to say to pay, especially in practical situations such as:

• shops
• bills
• online checkout
• banking

So با کارت پرداخت کنید is a very natural service-language phrase meaning pay by card.

You may also encounter forms like بپردازید, but پرداخت کنید is extremely common and easy to recognize.

را is the direct object marker.

It usually marks a specific or identifiable object. Here, the receipt is a specific thing the customer receives after paying, so رسید را is very natural.

So:

• رسید = receipt
• رسید را = the receipt, as the direct object of the verb

English does not have an exact equivalent word for را, so you usually just understand it as a grammar marker.

Because it comes from the compound verb نگه داشتن, meaning to keep, to hold onto, or to retain.

Persian has many compound verbs made of:

• a non-verbal element
• plus a light verb

Here:

• نگه carries the main idea of keeping/holding
• دارید is the verb part

So you should learn نگه داشتن as one vocabulary item, even though it is written as two words in many forms.

It can suggest both ideas, depending on context.

In this sentence, رسید را نگه دارید most naturally means:

• keep the receipt
• hold onto the receipt
• save the receipt

In a real-life shop situation, it usually means the customer should not throw it away and should keep it for later if needed.

Because Persian normally follows a Subject–Object–Verb pattern.

So the natural order is:

• object first: رسید را
• verb last: نگه دارید

That is why Persian often sounds like the receipt keep when translated word-for-word, even though the real meaning is simply keep the receipt.

A careful pronunciation would be roughly:

forushande goft: mitavânid bâ kârt pardâkht konid va resid râ negah dârid

A few helpful notes:

• فروشنده = forushande
• می‌توانید / میتوانید = mitavânid
• کارت has a long â
• رسید is pronounced roughly resid
• نگه sounds like negah

In everyday speech, some vowels may be reduced slightly, but the written form remains the same.