Farsi · Pronunciation Guide

How do you pronounce "چطور" in Farsi?

Say "che-TOR," with stress on the second syllable, which rhymes with the English word "tore."

چطور /tʃeˈtor/

chetor

Stress falls on the final syllable, -tor, following the regular Persian pattern.

Listen: چطور

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Sound it out

چ ch + a short, unstressed "e" (like "eh") — "che-."

ط t — historically an "emphatic" Arabic letter, but pronounced in Persian just like a plain t.

ور و here stands for a short "o" (not a long "oo") + r — the stressed syllable, -TOR.

Hear it in a sentence

چطور به آنجا می‌روید؟

Chetor be ānjā miravid?

How are you going there?

Listen: چطور به آنجا می‌روید؟

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"چطور به آنجا می‌روید؟" (Chetor be ānjā miravid?) means "How are you going there?" چطور opens the sentence as usual for question words, and به آنجا ("to there") comes before the verb می‌روید, following standard Persian verb-final order.

Where English speakers slip

Watch that the و in چطور represents a short "o," not the long "oo" it usually signals elsewhere (as in روز, "day") — reading it as "che-TOOR" is a common learner mistake. چطور is also the everyday word for "how are you?" greetings (چطورید؟), so it's worth learning its exact sound early.