Persian to European Portuguese: keep the intended actor in a purpose clause
The person coming and the person seeing can be the same
Āmadam tā šomā rā bebinam describes the speaker coming in order to see the addressee in the Persian subjunctive lesson. The speaker performs both actions. Šomā is the person to be seen, not the subject of the seeing merely because that pronoun appears close to the second verb.
The lesson also gives this purpose relationship with ke and with no explicit connector in certain examples. Losing the visible tā does not necessarily remove the purpose. The verb forms and the complete construction still establish what the speaker came to do. A European Portuguese rendering must preserve that relationship rather than invent two unrelated reports.
Portuguese purpose clauses can make a different actor explicit
Carla Marques’s Ciberdúvidas explanation contrasts Trabalhavam para comer with Trabalhavam para nós comermos. In the first, the people working are also the intended eaters. In the second, the purpose concerns our eating, with an explicit subject and an inflected infinitive. A small target expansion can therefore identify a genuinely different participant.
These are documented Portuguese purpose examples, not translations of the Persian visiting sentence. Their relevance is the subject relationship. If the Persian speaker came to see somebody, a target construction should not make that somebody the person expected to carry out the seeing. If the source instead describes an action intended to enable another person to act, the target must retain that switch.
The same explanation presents para que followed by the subjunctive as another way to form a purpose clause. Consequently, a Persian subjunctive does not require an identical-looking target form in every sentence. An appropriate target infinitive can preserve the intended relationship, while a different construction can state a separate intended actor.
Past arrival does not turn an intended meeting into an accomplished one
The Persian lesson keeps the purpose verb in the present subjunctive across examples with a past, perfect or pluperfect main verb. Those labels do not place the desired meeting automatically at the present moment. The main event and its purpose have to be interpreted together.
For a travel explanation, having come to see a colleague states why the journey was made. It does not by itself assert that the colleague was found or the meeting completed. A translation that replaces purpose with a simple completed seeing report adds an outcome the source may never claim.
Persian Online also illustrates tā with several temporal and purpose uses. Thus identifying the intended clause relationship matters before selecting a Portuguese connector. Until a person returns and in order to see a person connect events differently, even if the same short source word helps introduce them.
For Persian into European Portuguese, follow the source verb endings, distinguish the person acting from the person seen, and preserve purpose as purpose. Then select a target construction that keeps either the same actor or an explicitly different intended actor, without adding a completed outcome.
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