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Farsi · Pronunciation Guide
How do you pronounce "بازی" in Farsi?
Say 'bah-ZEE' — a long open 'ah' followed by a stressed long 'ee'.
bāzi
Stress falls on the second syllable, -zi; keep the first syllable's vowel long and open rather than clipping it.
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بچهها بازی جدیدی یاد گرفتند.
Bacheh-hā bāzi-ye jadidi yād gereftand.
The children learned a new game.
Listen: بچهها بازی جدیدی یاد گرفتند.
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Bacheh-hā bāzi-ye jadidi yād gereftand. — 'The children learned a new game.' Bāzi takes the ezāfe -ye to attach the adjective jadid ('new'), giving bāzi-ye jadidi, 'a new game'; yād gereftand ('they took/learned') is a compound verb built from yād ('memory') plus gereftan ('to take'), the standard way to say 'to learn' in Persian.
Where English speakers slip
Because English 'bazaar' starts with a similar-looking 'ba-', learners sometimes stress the first syllable of bāzi. The stress actually falls on -zi, and the first vowel should stay long, not reduced to a quick English schwa.