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Farsi · Pronunciation Guide
How do you pronounce "گم کردن" in Farsi?
Say 'GOHM KAR-dahn' — gom means 'lost', kardan is 'to do', so literally 'to make lost'.
gom kardan
Gom is a single syllable and inherently stressed; kardan carries its own stress on 'kar-' — GOM KAR-dan.
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Hear it in a sentence
او کیفش را گم کرد.
U kif-esh rā gom kard.
He/She lost his/her bag.
Listen: او کیفش را گم کرد.
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'او کیفش را گم کرد' (U kif-esh rā gom kard, 'He/She lost his/her bag') combines کیف ('bag') with the possessive suffix -esh ('his/her'); the whole possessed noun still takes را as the direct-object marker (kif-esh rā), showing رā attaches after possessive suffixes too, not just bare nouns.
Where English speakers slip
English speakers often leave gom and kardan un-glued as if gom were just a free-floating adjective — but gom kardan is a fixed transitive light verb ('to lose something'), distinct from گم شدن (gom shodan, 'to become/get lost', intransitive), used for people or things losing themselves. Mixing these two up is the classic mistake.