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How do you pronounce "دانستن" in Farsi?
Say dah-nes-TAN, three syllables, long open 'ah' first, stress on the last syllable.
dānestan
The infinitive stresses its final syllable -tan, but note that in its negative present-tense forms the stress moves to the negative prefix instead (see the sentence note).
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جواب را نمیدانم.
Javāb rā nemidānam.
I don't know the answer.
Listen: جواب را نمیدانم.
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'جواب را نمیدانم' (javāb rā nemidānam, 'I don't know the answer') shows the object marker را attached to جواب because it's a specific, definite answer being discussed. It also shows a key stress quirk: in negative present forms, primary stress shifts onto the negative prefix ne-, giving NE-midānam rather than ne-mi-DĀnam.
Where English speakers slip
Learners correctly stress mi- in positive present forms (midānam) but then keep stressing it in the negative too; the negative marker ne- actually steals the primary stress, so 'I don't know' is NE-midānam, not ne-MI-dānam.