برخی
برخی (barkhi) means “some” or “certain ones” in formal Persian. A pure Persian word, it is the written-register counterpart of the colloquial بعضی, common in journalism, academic writing, and official documents.
Glossary
بعضی
بعضی (ba’zi) means “some” or “certain ones” in everyday Persian. Borrowed from Arabic, it is fully naturalized in spoken and casual written Persian, and forms common compounds like بعضی وقتا (sometimes).
هر جا
هر جا (har jâ) means “anywhere” or “wherever” in Persian. A pure-Persian compound of هر (every/any) and جا (place), it works as both a free adverb and a subordinating conjunction in conditional clauses.
همه جا
همه جا (hame jâ) means “everywhere” in Persian. A pure-Persian compound of همه (all) and جا (place), it makes blanket statements about all locations and appears across all registers.
همه چیز
همه چیز (hame chiz) means “everything” in Persian. A pure-Persian compound of همه (all) and چیز (thing), it is the standard pronoun for referring to all things in a context.
همه
همه (hame) means “all” or “everyone” in Persian. A pure Persian word from Old Iranian, it is one of the most frequent words in the language and can refer to people, things, or entire quantities.
هیچ وقت
هیچ وقت (hich vaqt) means “never” in Persian. A mixed-origin compound of pure-Persian هیچ and Arabic-origin وقت, it is the standard everyday word for never, more common than the literary هرگز.
هیچی
هیچی (hichi) means “nothing” in colloquial Persian. It is the compressed spoken form of هیچ چیز (hich chiz), deeply embedded in everyday Tehran speech and a clear marker of informal versus formal register.
هیچ کس
هیچ کس (hich kas) means “nobody” or “no one” in Persian. A pure-Persian compound of هیچ (none) and کس (person), it always pairs with a negative verb and is one of the first negative pronouns learners encounter.
هیچ کدام
هیچ کدام (hich kodum) means “neither” or “none of them” in Persian. A pure-Persian negative compound, it negates every member of a set and always pairs with a negative verb.