Farsi · Pronunciation Guide

How do you pronounce "فراموش کردن" in Farsi?

Q: How do you pronounce فراموش کردن in Farsi?

فراموش کردن is pronounced with the stress described below. In IPA it is written /færɒːˈmuːʃ ˈkærdæn/. It means “to forget.” Say 'fa-rah-MOOSH KAR-dahn' — farāmush means 'forgotten/oblivion', kardan is 'to do', literally 'to do forgetting'.

Say 'fa-rah-MOOSH KAR-dahn' — farāmush means 'forgotten/oblivion', kardan is 'to do', literally 'to do forgetting'.

فراموش کردن /færɒːˈmuːʃ ˈkærdæn/

farāmush kardan

Farāmush stresses its final syllable ('-mush'); kardan stresses its first ('kar-') — fa-rā-MUSH KAR-dan.

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Sound it out

ف ر ا 'farā' — ف is 'f', ر is a tapped 'r', ا is the long 'ā' of 'father'; together it sounds like 'fa-RAH'.

م و ش 'mush' — و here is the long 'u' ('oo'), ش is 'sh'; rhymes with English 'push' but with a longer vowel — this is the stressed syllable.

ک ر د ن 'kardan' — 'kar' like 'car', 'dan' like 'John'; stress 'KAR'.

Hear it in a sentence

لطفاً کلید را فراموش نکنید.

Lotfan kelid rā farāmush nakonid.

Please don't forget the key.

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'لطفاً کلید را فراموش نکنید' (Lotfan kelid rā farāmush nakonid, 'Please don't forget the key') opens with lotfan ('please'), a borrowed Arabic adverb common in polite requests; nakonid is the negative imperative of kardan (na- plus konid), and again this conjugated form stresses its prefix, na-KO-nid, unlike the bare infinitive's KAR-dan.

Where English speakers slip

Because farāmush kardan is transitive ('to forget something'), learners sometimes confuse it with the intransitive یادش رفتن (yād-esh raftan, 'it slipped his/her mind') — when there's a direct object marked with رā, as in 'kelid rā farāmush kardan', you need farāmush kardan, not the yād-raftan construction.