Farsi · Pronunciation Guide

How do you pronounce "بازی کردن" in Farsi?

Q: How do you pronounce بازی کردن in Farsi?

بازی کردن is pronounced with the stress described below. In IPA it is written /bɒːˈziː ˈkærdæn/. It means “to play.” Say 'bah-ZEE KAR-dahn' — bāzi means 'game/play', kardan is 'to do', so literally 'to do a game' → 'to play'.

Say 'bah-ZEE KAR-dahn' — bāzi means 'game/play', kardan is 'to do', so literally 'to do a game' → 'to play'.

بازی کردن /bɒːˈziː ˈkærdæn/

bāzi kardan

Bāzi stresses its final syllable ('-zi'), following the normal Persian pattern of final-syllable stress on nouns; kardan keeps its own stress on 'kar-' — bā-ZI KAR-dan.

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Sound it out

ب ا ز ی 'bāzi' — ب is 'b', ا is the long 'ā' of 'father', ز is 'z', and the final ی is a long 'ee'; stress lands on that final '-zi'.

ک ر د ن 'kardan' — 'kar' like 'car', 'dan' like 'John'; stress on 'KAR'.

Hear it in a sentence

بچه‌ها در پارک بازی می‌کنند.

Bacche-hā dar pārk bāzi mikonand.

The children play in the park.

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'بچه‌ها در پارک بازی می‌کنند' (Bacche-hā dar pārk bāzi mikonand, 'The children play in the park') adds the plural suffix -hā to bacche ('child'); dar pārk ('in the park') is a simple prepositional phrase; and mikonand again shows می- taking the primary stress of the conjugated verb: bāzi mi-KO-nand.

Where English speakers slip

Learners sometimes try to conjugate bāzi itself instead of leaving it frozen and conjugating only kardan/mikonand — remember, in every tense it's bāzi mikonam, bāzi mikoni, bāzi mikonand, with bāzi never changing form.