Translation Between Persian and Hindi, Urdu, and English
What this domain tests
Translation items test whether you can carry meaning, tense, register, and idiom from Persian into Hindi, Urdu, or English and back. Passages are usually short prose sentences; official and letter phrases also appear.
Core rules
- Restructure word order. Persian is subject-object-verb; English is subject-verb-object. Hindi and Urdu keep subject-object-verb but change verb agreement and often use نے with transitive perfectives.
- Preserve tense and aspect: Persian past simple often becomes English simple past and Urdu/Hindi perfective; می plus present often becomes English progressive and Hindi/Urdu رہا ہے.
- را is an object marker, not 'to': «کتاب را خریدم» = 'I bought the book', not 'I bought to the book'.
- Reverse ezafe chains in English: «کتابِ تاریخِ ایران» = 'the book of the history of Iran', or more naturally 'the book on Iran's history'.
- Match register. «به عرض میرساند» = 'it is submitted'; «خواهشمند است» = 'you are requested'; «با تشکر» = 'with thanks'.
Worked example
Persian: «من دیروز از بازار یک کتاب فارسی خریدم.» Reasoning: من = I; دیروز = yesterday; از بازار = from the market; یک کتاب فارسی = a Persian book; خریدم = I bought. English: 'Yesterday I bought a Persian book from the market.' Urdu: «میں نے کل بازار سے ایک فارسی کتاب خریدی۔» The Persian past simple maps to the Urdu perfective; because خریدنا is transitive, نے is required and the verb agrees with کتاب.
Traps that cost marks
- Translating word for word and producing unnatural target-language order.
- Rendering را as 'to' or 'for'.
- Missing the distinction between habitual present and progressive present.
- Ignoring honorifics and official formulas, which lowers the register.
- TreatingPersian compound verbs as single English verbs without checking the preposition.