Farsi · Pronunciation Guide

How do you pronounce "گوش دادن" in Farsi?

Q: How do you pronounce گوش دادن in Farsi?

گوش دادن is pronounced with the stress described below. In IPA it is written /guːʃ dɒːˈdæn/. It means “to listen.” Say GOOSH dah-DAN — gush gets its own stress, with a long 'oo' as in 'goose', and dādan carries its own stress separately.

Say GOOSH dah-DAN — gush gets its own stress, with a long 'oo' as in 'goose', and dādan carries its own stress separately.

گوش دادن /guːʃ dɒːˈdæn/

gush dādan

In this light-verb phrase, gush (ear) keeps its own word-stress, while dādan (to give) stresses its final syllable when bare, or its mi- prefix when conjugated — though its stem itself is irregular (see sentence note).

Listen: گوش دادن

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Sound it out

گوش 'gush' — g as in English 'go', plus a long u like 'goose', then sh; this word ('ear') stays fixed and never conjugates.

دادن 'dādan' — the verb 'to give', literally 'to give ear' in this phrase; conjugates irregularly (midaham, not the expected 'midādam').

Hear it in a sentence

به موسیقی گوش می‌دهم.

Be musighi gush midaham.

I listen to music.

Listen: به موسیقی گوش می‌دهم.

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'به موسیقی گوش می‌دهم' (be musiqi gush midaham, 'I listen to music') is literally 'to give ear to music' — the thing listened to takes the preposition به (be, 'to'), not the object marker را. Note dādan's present stem is the irregular dah-, giving midaham rather than the expected 'midādam'.

Where English speakers slip

Learners often use را instead of به for the thing being listened to (wrongly saying musiqi rā gush midaham); they also tend to conjugate dādan from its infinitive stem, producing 'midādam' instead of the correct irregular midaham.