Farsi · Pronunciation Guide

How do you pronounce "به یاد آوردن" in Farsi?

Q: How do you pronounce به یاد آوردن in Farsi?

به یاد آوردن is pronounced with the stress described below. In IPA it is written /be jɒːd ɒːˈværdæn/. It means “to remember.” Say 'beh YAHD ah-VAR-dahn' — literally 'to bring to memory'. Be is 'to', yād is 'memory', āvardan is 'to bring'.

Say 'beh YAHD ah-VAR-dahn' — literally 'to bring to memory'. Be is 'to', yād is 'memory', āvardan is 'to bring'.

به یاد آوردن /be jɒːd ɒːˈværdæn/

be yād āvardan

Be is an unstressed preposition; yād, as a one-syllable content word, is naturally stressed; āvardan stresses its second syllable, the one right before '-dan' — be YĀD ā-VAR-dan.

Listen: به یاد آوردن

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Sound it out

ب ه 'be' — a short, unstressed 'b' plus short 'e' (as in 'bed'), functioning like the light English preposition 'to'.

ی ا د 'yād' — ی is 'y' as in 'yes', ا is the long 'ā' of 'father', د is 'd'; this whole syllable is stressed.

آ و ر د ن 'āvardan' — آ is again the long 'ā', و here is a consonant 'v' (not 'oo'), ر is a tapped 'r'; stress falls on '-var-', giving ā-VAR-dan.

Hear it in a sentence

نامش را به یاد نمی‌آورم.

Nām-ash rā be yād nemi'āvaram.

I don't remember his/her name.

Listen: نامش را به یاد نمی‌آورم.

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'نامش را به یاد نمی‌آورم' (Nām-ash rā be yād nemi'āvaram, 'I don't remember his/her name') takes رā on nām-ash ('his/her name') as the definite direct object, with the idiom be yād āvardan wrapping around it; the negative form nemi'āvaram again carries its primary stress on the می- syllable, right after the negative ne-.

Where English speakers slip

Learners often try to shorten this to just 'yād āvardan', dropping be, but 'be yād' is a fixed unit — you can't say 'nām-ash rā yād nemi'āvaram' and expect it to sound natural; be must stay attached to yād as one idiomatic chunk.