Farsi · Pronunciation Guide

How do you pronounce "هر" in Farsi?

Q: How do you pronounce هر in Farsi?

هر is pronounced with the stress described below. In IPA it is written /hær/. It means “each.” Rhymes with the English word "hair" said quickly and clipped short, or think of the start of "harbor" without the "-bor."

Rhymes with the English word "hair" said quickly and clipped short, or think of the start of "harbor" without the "-bor."

هر /hær/

har

A single syllable, so there's nothing to stress — just keep the vowel short and don't let it drift toward the long "ah" of ا.

Listen: هر

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Sound it out

هـ A plain "h" as in "hat."

ر A light, tapped "r," closing the syllable — the short vowel between ه and ر is a quick "a" like in "cat," not the long "ah" of father.

Hear it in a sentence

هر روز به مدرسه می‌روم.

Har ruz be madrese miravam.

I go to school each day.

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In هر روز به مدرسه می‌روم, هر روز means "each day/every day," with هر functioning like an adjective placed directly before the noun it modifies, similar to English "each" or "every." The rest of the sentence, به مدرسه می‌روم ("I go to school"), shows the preposition به ("to") attaching to the destination before the verb, which again sits at the very end.

Where English speakers slip

Because هر is spelled with just ه and ر, English speakers sometimes read it with a long vowel like "hahr" — but the vowel is short, closer to the "a" in "cat" than the "a" in "father." It's also worth not confusing هر ("each/every") with هم ("also/too"), which looks and sounds similar at a glance but means something entirely different.