Some very Afghan phrases:

Chi gap(h)ā?	What’s up?
Chi gap ast?	What’s the matter?
Jur hasti? / Jānet jur ast?	Are you well?
Bekheiri? Salāmati?	Are you well?
Sahist!	Right!
Sahi gap ast.	That’s right.
Gapi nist.	No problem.
Hā.	Yes
Ne.	No.
Qissa ko!	Say something!
Ma ra chi?	What do I care?
Hech gapi nist.	No problem at all.
Dar qisayish nisti.	It doesn’t have anything to do with you. (Lit.: You are not in the story)
Shabet khush. /Shabe khush dāshte bāshid.	Goodnight
Mebakhshin!	I’m sorry! Excuse me.
Delet baisikelet (your wish – your bicycle)	Do as you wish.
Ami gap(h)āst. (ami = Tehrani Hamin)	That’s exactly what I mean.

 

Verbs:

 

Dari	Farsi
Jur kardan	dorust kardan	to arrange, to manage, to build
gap zadan	harf zadan	to talk, to speak, to chat
porsān kardan	porsidan	to ask
seyl kardan	negāh kardan	to look at
ter kardan	waght gozāshtan	to spend, to pass
dar kār budan	lāzem budan	to be necessary
poshte kasi diq shodan	del-tang budan	to miss somebody
yād kardan	del-tang budan	to miss (sth.; sb.)
lat zadan	ba kafe dast zadan	to slap
khaw/khaab kardan	khābidan	to sleep
bete	bedeh	give!
dar inja/ānjā	injā	here
e/i raqam	inturi / injuri	like this
cheqa / che qadar	cheghad	how much
sā’at(e) x baja	sā’ate x	x o’clock
az man, az to, etc	māle man, māle to, etc	mine, yours, etc
fikir	fek	thinking

 

Vocab

 

Dari	Farsi
besyor	kheyli	very, a lot
bilkul (Arabic), also in Urduبالكل	kāmelan	totally
bura	šekar	sugar
diq	ghamgin	sad, miserable
gans	gij	bewildered, baffled
gharib	faqir	poor
goli	ghors	pills
hebdah	hefda	17
i	in	this
janjāl	jang	fighting
kākā	dāyi	uncle (maternal)
kalān	bozorg	big
khurd	kuchik	small
khaste-kon	khaste-konande	boring
li (from “levis”)	shalvār jin	jeans
maida	kuchik	small
maktab	madresse	school
maqbul	ziba	pretty, beautiful
naan	ghaza	bread; meal; food
paisa	pul	money
paisa-dār	pul-dār	wealthy
pas	bad	bad
pohantun	Pashto	university
qār	mojāzāt	offended, sulking
sarak	khiyābūn	street
shefākhāna/ shepākhāna	bimārestān	hospital
tashnāb	dast-šuyi	toilet
ter	khis	wet
tez/tiz	sari	quick
yagān	ye	any

 

Prepositions

 

Dari	Farsi
bā kasi didan	kasi ra didan (more often: ba kasi molaaghaat kardan)
barāyi kasi goftan	be kasi goftan
sare kasi etemaad kardan	be kasi etemaad kardan

 

Pronouns

 

Mā, ma, me	man	I
tu	to	you

 

Vowels

 

Farsi		Dari
o	shod; jodā	u	(shud); (judā)
a	na	a / e	(ne)
e	(be); ke, del	a / i	(ba), (ki), (dil)
i	(mikonam);	i/e	(mekonam);
aa (u)	(kaar); (khūne)	aa	(kaar); khāna

 

Consonants

 

gh		q
r is more like a		r is almost a trill in Dari
h	hamin	sometimes dropped	ami