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INTRODUCTION
There is so much to see and do in Iran, and there are times when access to some must-see places requires an admission ticket. So in this lesson, we’re going to work on getting you through the gate, as we look at buying tickets.
GRAMMAR POINT
In Persian, “ticket” is
bilit
(slow) bilit
bi-lit
Once again:
bilit
In Persian, “one ticket, please” is
Yek bilit, lotfan.
(slow) Yek bilit, lotfan.
yek bi-lit lot-fan
Once again:
Yek bilit, lotfan.
Let’s break it down:
The first word, yek, means “one”.
(slow) yek
yek
Next, we have bilit, which in Persian is “ticket”.
(slow) bilit
bilit
To recap here; so far we have Yek bilit. Let's look at the next word, which you know very well; it’s lotfan, and it means “please”. So altogether, we have
Yek bilit, lotfan. Literally, this means, “one ticket please.”
We’ll work on getting tickets for the rest of the lesson.
Let’s recap numbers from one to ten.
yek “one”
do -“two”
se - “three”
chahaar - “four”
panj - “five”
shesh - “six”
haft - “seven”
hasht - “eight”
noh - “nine”
dah - “ten”
“Three tickets, please” in Persian is
Se taa bilit, lotfan.
(slow) Se taa bilit, lotfan.
se taa bi-lit lot-fan
Once again:
Se taa bilit, lotfan.
Let’s break it down.
The first word, se means, “three”, but we need to add taa, which is literally “number”
(slow) se taa
Se ta
Next, we have bilit, in the same form as before.
(slow) bilit
bilit
So altogether, we have Se taa bilit, lotfan.
Literally, this means, “A number of three tickets, please.”
“Five tickets, please” in Persian is
Panj taa bilit, lotfan.
(slow) Panj taa bilit, lotfan.
Panj taa bi-lit lot-fan
Once again:
Panj taa bilit, lotfan.
Very often, you may be asked to show your ticket at places other than the entrance, so keep these with you until you leave the place you are visiting. They’ll ask you ,“Your ticket, please.”
Bilitetoon lotfan.
(slow) bi-li te-toon lot-fan
Bilitetoon lotfan.
Let’s break it down.
This means, “Your ticket, please.” The first word is Bilitetoon which is “your ticket” in polite form.
(slow) bi-li-te-toon
Bilitetoon
Then, you have lotfan which is “please”.
(slow) lotfan
lotfan
One more time all together, that is: Bilitetoon lotfan.

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