Farsi · Pronunciation Guide

How do you pronounce "درس خواندن" in Farsi?

Q: How do you pronounce درس خواندن in Farsi?

درس خواندن is pronounced with the stress described below. In IPA it is written /dærs xɒːnˈdæn/. It means “to study.” Say DARS khahn-DAN — dars keeps its own stress as a noun, and khāndan stresses its final syllable, with kh as the raspy 'loch' sound.

Say DARS khahn-DAN — dars keeps its own stress as a noun, and khāndan stresses its final syllable, with kh as the raspy 'loch' sound.

درس خواندن /dærs xɒːnˈdæn/

dars khāndan

In this light-verb phrase, dars (lesson) carries its own noun-stress while khāndan (to read/recite) separately stresses its final -dan, or its mi- prefix when conjugated.

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Sound it out

درس 'dars' — d, a short a like 'cup', then r and s; this noun ('lesson') stays fixed and never conjugates.

خوا Pronounced 'khā' — silent و, same pattern as khāstan; kh is the raspy 'loch' sound.

ندن 'ndan', stressed, plain n and d plus short a.

Hear it in a sentence

او فارسی درس می‌خواند.

U fārsi dars mikhānad.

He/She studies Persian.

Listen: او فارسی درس می‌خواند.

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'او فارسی درس می‌خواند' (u fārsi dars mikhānad, 'He/she studies Persian') uses the light-verb phrase dars khāndan, literally 'to read lesson(s)' but meaning 'to study'. فارسی (fārsi, 'Persian') slots in before dars to specify what's being studied, with no extra preposition or ezafe needed.

Where English speakers slip

Because khāndan alone (rank 90 in this list) means simply 'to read', learners can miss that dars khāndan is its own fixed idiom for 'to study' — and mistakenly add را after فارسی, when the plain, unmarked noun is correct here.