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Farsi · Pronunciation Guide
How do you pronounce "-ت" in Farsi?
A quick, unstressed "-at" tacked onto a word's end, rhyming with English "cat" but said fast and lightly.
-at
Always unstressed — like -am, this suffix never carries its own stress and leans entirely on the noun before it.
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کتابت روی میز است.
Ketāb-at ru-ye miz ast.
Your book is on the table.
Listen: کتابت روی میز است.
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"Ketāb-at ru-ye miz ast" (کتابت روی میز است) attaches -at to ketāb ("book") to mean "your book," using the informal "your" that matches the informal pronoun to. As with -am, no separate word for "your" is needed — the suffix does that job on its own.
Where English speakers slip
Because this suffix is spelled with the same letter ت used for the ordinary consonant "t" in countless other words, beginners reading a text sometimes fail to recognize it as the possessive "-at" glued onto a noun and instead try to parse it as part of the noun's root — context (a noun followed by a person or thing possessing it) is the giveaway.