Farsi · Pronunciation Guide

How do you pronounce "-مان" in Farsi?

Q: How do you pronounce -مان in Farsi?

-مان is pronounced with the stress described below. In IPA it is written /-emɒːn/. It means “our.” Say "eh-MAHN" tacked onto the end of a word — a quick "eh," then a longer, stressed-feeling "mahn" with the open "ah" of "father."

Say "eh-MAHN" tacked onto the end of a word — a quick "eh," then a longer, stressed-feeling "mahn" with the open "ah" of "father."

-مان /-emɒːn/

-emān

As a suffix it doesn't take a full independent stress, but relative to -am/-at/-esh it's a longer, heavier ending because of its long ā vowel — say the mān part with clear weight even though it's still grammatically unstressed.

Listen: -مان

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Sound it out

م Like English "m" in "man," here starting the suffix.

ا A long "ā" vowel, like "a" in "father."

ن Like English "n" in "man," closing out the suffix.

Hear it in a sentence

خانه‌مان بزرگ است.

Khāne-mān bozorg ast.

Our house is big.

Listen: خانه‌مان بزرگ است.

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"Khāne-mān bozorg ast" (خانه‌مان بزرگ است) attaches -emān to khāne ("house") to mean "our house." As with -am, a small connecting glide appears in writing (خانه‌مان) because khāne already ends in a vowel — the whole thing is still pronounced smoothly as one flowing word.

Where English speakers slip

Learners sometimes reach for a separate word like mā ("we") placed before the noun instead of using this suffix, producing an unnatural "mā khāne" rather than the correct khāne-mān — remember Persian folds "our" directly onto the end of the noun rather than putting a separate possessive word in front of it.