The Linguistic Features of Infinitive as an Adjective With the Meaning of Motivation in Russian and Persian Languages

This article seeks to investigate Russian infinitive as an adjective with the meaning of motivation and the means to convey it in Persian language. Russian infinitive has noun or verbal forms, which can express semantic meanings by lexical and intonational units even into the function of adjective, while Persian infinitive in a sentence is expressed by a noun. Hence in some cases no problem can be seen in expressing Russian infinitive adjective with the meaning of motivation in Persian language, but in other cases, according to the context, Russian infinitive adjective in Persian should be conveyed as a verb form. During our research on the basis of comparative analysis, we studied infinitive as an adjective with the meaning of motivation by the variety of examples, which were derived from the epic novel "The Road to Calvary" by A.N. Tolstoy. Moreover we tested the Persian translation of these samples to demonstrate the language tools, which are used for expressing the aforementioned meaning by Russian infinitive adjective in Persian language

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