Editing Persian language (section)

===Morphology===
Suffixes predominate Persian [[morphology (linguistics)|morphology]], though there are a small number of prefixes.<ref name="megerdoomian2000">{{cite conference |last=Megerdoomian |first=Karine |title=Persian computational morphology: A unification-based approach |book-title=Memoranda in Computer and Cognitive Science: MCCS-00-320 |pages=1 |year=2000 |url=http://www.zoorna.org/papers/MCCS320.pdf |access-date=9 May 2007 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130902025912/http://www.zoorna.org/papers/MCCS320.pdf |archive-date=2 September 2013}}</ref> Verbs can express tense and [[grammatical aspect|aspect]], and they agree with the subject in person and number.<ref name="mahootian1997">{{cite book |title=Persian |year=1997 |last=Mahootian |first=Shahrzad |publisher=Routledge |location=London |isbn=0-415-02311-4 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DHqUjnN2_YwC&q=Mahootian+Shahrzad+1997&pg=PR1 |access-date=18 November 2020 |archive-date=10 March 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210310172349/https://books.google.com/books?id=DHqUjnN2_YwC&q=Mahootian%20Shahrzad%201997&pg=PR1 |url-status=live}}</ref> There is no [[grammatical gender]] in modern Persian, and pronouns are not marked for [[grammatical gender#Grammatical vs. natural gender|natural gender]]. In other words, in Persian, pronouns are gender-neutral. When referring to a masculine or a feminine subject, the same pronoun {{wikt-lang|fa|او}} is used (pronounced "ou", ū).<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Yousef |first1=Saeed|last2=Torabi |first2=Hayedeh|title=Basic Persian: A Grammar and Workbook|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ssrb18kDwcMC&pg=PP1|publisher=Routledge|place=New York|date=2013|isbn=9781136283888|access-date=18 November 2020|archive-date=10 March 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210310172943/https://books.google.com/books?id=ssrb18kDwcMC&pg=PP1|url-status=live|page=37}}</ref>