تمام کردن

What it means

تمام کردن (tamâm kardan) means “to finish, to complete, to use up.” Compound verb with Arabic noun تمام (tamâm, “complete, whole”) and Persian کردن (kardan). A1 vocabulary, used constantly in daily life.

How to use it

• کارم را تمام کردم (kâr-am râ tamâm kardam) “I finished my work”
• غذایت را تمام کن (ghazâ-yat râ tamâm kon) “Finish your food”
• تمام شد (tamâm shod) “It is over, finished”

Common pairings

• تمام شدن (tamâm shodan) “to be finished, run out (intransitive)”
• تمام عیار (tamâm-eyâr) “fully fledged, of full measure”
• نا‌تمام (nâ-tamâm) “incomplete, unfinished”
• به اتمام رساندن (be etmâm resândan) “to bring to completion” (formal)

Compound verb structure

A کردن (kardan, “to do”) compound: تمام (the adjective/noun “whole, complete”) + کردن. The transitive form. Pair with the intransitive تمام شدن (tamâm shodan, “to be finished, to run out”): پولم تمام شد (pulam tamâm shod, “my money ran out”). تمام is from Arabic root ت م م meaning “to complete”, same root as تتمیم (tatmim, “completion”) and متمم (motammem, “supplement”).

References

• Dehkhoda
• Wiktionary