Farsi · Pronunciation Guide

How do you pronounce "درست" in Farsi?

Q: How do you pronounce درست in Farsi?

درست is pronounced with the stress described below. In IPA it is written /dorost/. It means “correct.” Say "doh-ROST", two short syllables with the stress on the second — it rhymes loosely with the English cluster in "frost".

Say "doh-ROST", two short syllables with the stress on the second — it rhymes loosely with the English cluster in "frost".

درست /dorost/

dorost

Stress falls on the final syllable, -ROST; both o's are short, crisp vowels, not the longer "oh" sound English speakers might default to.

Listen: درست

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Sound it out

د A plain "d" as in "day" followed by a short "o" like the vowel in British "hot".

ر A light, tapped "r", similar to the tt in American "butter".

ست "o" plus the consonant cluster "st" said together crisply, exactly like the end of the English word "frost".

Hear it in a sentence

جواب شما درست است.

Javāb-e shomā dorost ast.

Your answer is correct.

Listen: جواب شما درست است.

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"Javāb-e shomā dorost ast" (Your answer is correct) is a good example of the ezafe construction: the short unstressed -e attached to javāb ("answer") links it to shomā ("you/your"), functioning like English "of" in reverse order — javāb-e shomā literally patterns as "answer-of you", i.e. "your answer".

Where English speakers slip

Because ast ("is") immediately follows, English speakers sometimes try to insert a word for "is" earlier in the sentence out of habit; remember the adjective dorost always comes right before ast at the very end, with no separate copula anywhere else in the clause.