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Farsi · Pronunciation Guide
How do you pronounce "الان" in Farsi?
Say "al-AHN," with a tiny catch in the throat before the second syllable and stress landing there.
al'ān
Stress falls on the final syllable, ān, and there's a genuine glottal stop (a brief closure of the throat) right before it, marked by the apostrophe in the romanization al'ān.
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الان کجا هستید؟
Al'ān kojā hastid?
Where are you now?
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"الان کجا هستید؟" (Al'ān kojā hastid?) means "Where are you now?" الان opens the sentence as a time word, and the verb هستید ("are," formal) comes last, after the question word کجا — standard Persian verb-final word order.
Where English speakers slip
English speakers tend to smooth الان into one continuous syllable, but the glottal stop in the middle is real and audible to Iranian ears — try pausing briefly, like the gap in "uh-oh," between al and ān. Don't confuse این ("this") with الان ("now") — they look similar in the Latin alphabet but are unrelated words.