بعد از امضا، قرارداد را در کیفم گذاشتم.

Because Persian often drops subject pronouns when the verb already shows who the subject is. In گذاشتم, the ending -م means I. So من is understood.

• گذاشتم = I put
• من گذاشتم = I put with extra emphasis on I

بعد از means after. It is a very common way to introduce something that happened later.

So:

• بعد از امضا = after signing / after the signature

A slightly more formal alternative is پس از.

Here امضا is being used as a noun, not a fully conjugated verb. Persian often does this after بعد از.

So instead of saying something like after I signed, Persian can naturally say:

• بعد از امضا = literally after signing / after the signing

A fuller version would be:

• بعد از اینکه امضا کردم = after I signed

Both are correct, but the version in your sentence is shorter and very natural.

It can suggest either one depending on context. Literally, امضا often means signature, but in sentences like this it commonly works like signing.

So بعد از امضا is best understood as:

• after signing
• or more literally, after the signature

In context, English usually translates it as after signing.

Persian does not have a definite article like English the. A noun can be definite just from context.

So قرارداد can mean:

• contract
• the contract

In this sentence, it is understood as the contract because the context makes it specific, and را also helps show that it is a specific direct object.

را marks the direct object, especially when it is specific or definite.

So:

• قرارداد را = the contract as the thing being acted on

It tells you that قرارداد is the object of گذاشتم.

In everyday speech, را is usually pronounced ro.

Good question. In Persian, در often covers both in and into, depending on the verb and the context.

With a motion verb like گذاشتم = I put, در کیفم گذاشتم naturally means:

• I put it in my bag
• or more literally, I placed it into my bag

If you want to emphasize inside, you could also hear داخلِ کیفم.

کیفم is made of:

• کیف = bag
• -م = my

So:

• کیفم = my bag

This -م is a possessive ending attached directly to the noun.

Other examples:

• کتابم = my book
• خانه‌ام = my house

گذاشتم is simple past, first person singular:

• I put
• I placed

It is built from the past stem گذاشت- plus the ending -م for I.

So:

• گذاشت = he/she put
• گذاشتم = I put
• گذاشتی = you put

Because Persian normally follows subject–object–verb order, and the verb often comes last.

This sentence is structured like this:

• بعد از امضا = after signing
• قرارداد را = the contract
• در کیفم = in my bag
• گذاشتم = I put

So Persian word order is different from English, where the verb usually comes earlier.

In conversation, native speakers often pronounce it more like:

• بعد از امضا، قراردادو تو کیفم گذاشتم
• transliteration: ba'd az emzâ, gharârdâd-o tu keyfam gozashtam

Common spoken changes:

• را → رو / ـو
• در often becomes تو in casual speech

So the written sentence is standard, and the spoken version is more colloquial.