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Spelling Rules for Enclitic Pronouns

When a word ends with ا or ی ,و intervenes between the vowel ending the word and the vowel beginning the enclitic:

"my foot" پایم

"her hair" مویش

In singular words ending with ه, pronounced "a", the ا which begins the enclitic is written in the initial form:

ام "my," ات "your," اش"his, her, its":

"my house" خانه ام

"his boy" بچه اش

[In a word processor, you may need to put a space between the two letters in order to cause the ا to take the initial form.]

When the noun is qualified by an adjective or adjectives, the suffixed pronouns are added to the final word only, i.e. to the adjective:

"your small son" پسر خوردتان

Enclitics are used much more widely in informal speech than in standard speech.

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