Meaning of Subject Tendency to Acts or States in One-Compound Infinitive Sentences in Russian Language

In Russian language by the use of infinitive in a one-compound structure, one can express the predicative characteristic of a sentence. Infinitives describe potential acts and are, therefore, majorly applied in expressing indirect meanings. Infinitives explain meanings as well, like: tendency to a necessary or required act or state, impatient tendency towards an act or state, tendency to an impossible or possible act or state in future, tendency to a proper and useful act or state, fear of an act or state, tending to an act not to be done or a state not to be occurred, permanent tendency and talent of a person to an act or state” in one-compound sentences with single-component structure. This article aims to explain the given meanings in one-compound infinitive sentences and study their expression in Persian language. Russian infinitive sentences with the meaning of subject’s tendency to acts or states are transformed into the past or near future tenses of the subjunctive mood in Persian. Comparative analysis and translation are used in this article.