In general, the grammar of the Tajik language fits the analytical type. Little remains of the case system, and grammatical relationships are primarily expressed via clitics, word order and other analytical constructions. It has been suggested that Persian language#Arabic Alphabet be merged into this article or section. ... The coat of arms of the Tajik Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic circa 1929. ... Tajik or Tadjik (тоҷикӣ, تاجیکی, tojikí) is a descendant of the Persian language spoken in Central Asia. ... An analytic language (or isolating language) is a language in which the vast majority of morphemes are free morphemes and considered to be full-fledged words. By contrast, in a synthetic language, a word is composed of agglutinated or fused morphemes that denote its syntactic meanings. ... In linguistics, a clitic is a word that syntactically functions as a free morpheme, but phonetically appears as a bound morpheme; it is always pronounced with a following or preceding word. ... Word order, in linguistic typology, refers to the order in which words appear in sentences across different languages. ...

Nouns

Nouns are not marked for grammatical gender, although they are marked for number. Natural gender is usually distinguished by a change of word, as in English, e.g. мурғ 'fowl' and xurujs 'rooster'. Alternatively the modifiers 'нар' for male or 'мода' for female can be pre or post-posed to the noun, e.g. хар-и нар 'male donkey' and хар-и мода 'female donkey'. It has been suggested that natural gender be merged into this article or section. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ...

Two forms of number exist in Tajik, singular and plural. The plural is marked by either the suffix -ҳо or -он, although Arabic loan words may use Arabic forms. The suffix -он is primarily used with animate nouns, whereas -ҳо can be used with any. For example, the singular for 'horse' is асп, and the plural, 'horses' can be either аспҳо or аспон.

The article does not exist, although the direct object is marked by a suffix, -ро. The use of this suffix is mandatory when a previously referenced object is being talked about. The accusative case of a noun is, generally, the case used to mark the direct object of a verb. ...

китобро	хондам
this book	I read

I read this book

китоб	мехондам
a book	I am reading

I am reading a book

Pronouns

Forms of the personal pronouns with English language equivalent(s) italicised in parentheses. Personal pronouns are pronouns that refer to objects of a sentence, usually (but not always), people or animals. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ...

The 2nd person plural, шумо also finds use as the polite form of the 2nd person, for example, шумо кай меоед? (trans. "when are you coming?").

Prepositions

See also

• Persian grammar
• Tajik language
• Tajik alphabet