Farsi · Pronunciation Guide

How do you pronounce "فکر کردن" in Farsi?

Q: How do you pronounce فکر کردن in Farsi?

فکر کردن is pronounced with the stress described below. In IPA it is written /fekr ˈkærdæn/. It means “to think.” Say 'FEKR KAR-dahn' — fekr is 'thought', kardan is 'to do', so literally 'to do thought'.

Say 'FEKR KAR-dahn' — fekr is 'thought', kardan is 'to do', so literally 'to do thought'.

فکر کردن /fekr ˈkærdæn/

fekr kardan

Both words carry their own stress since this is a noun-plus-light-verb pair: FEKR (its only syllable) and KAR-dan (stress on 'kar').

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Sound it out

ف ک ر 'fekr' is a tight one-syllable cluster — 'f' plus a short 'e' (like 'bed') plus 'kr' squeezed together, similar to how English says 'spectr-' without a vowel between k and r.

ک ر د ن 'kardan' — 'kar' like 'car' with a light tapped 'r', 'dan' rhyming with 'John'; stress on 'KAR'.

Hear it in a sentence

چه فکر می‌کنید؟

Che fekr mikonid?

What do you think?

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'چه فکر می‌کنید؟' (Che fekr mikonid?, 'What do you think?') shows کردن as mikonid, and this present-tense form carries its main stress right after می-: che fekr mi-KO-nid — a different stress pattern from the bare infinitive's KAR-dan.

Where English speakers slip

Because fekr kardan uses kardan as a helper verb, English speakers sometimes try to insert objects or negation between fekr and kardan/mikonid — but in everyday Persian, fekr and the conjugated kardan usually stay right next to each other, with negation attaching directly to the verb (nemikonam), not to fekr.