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How do you pronounce "هرگز" in Farsi?
Say "har-GEZ," with stress on the second syllable, which rhymes with the English word "guess" but with a z.
hargez
Stress falls on the final syllable, -gez, the regular Persian pattern.
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هرگز دروغ نمیگویم.
Hargez dorugh nemiguyam.
I never lie.
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"هرگز دروغ نمیگویم" (Hargez dorugh nemiguyam) means "I never lie," literally "never lie I-don't-say." The verb نمیگویم is negated with the نمی- prefix even though هرگز already means "never" — Persian requires this double marking, unlike English.
Where English speakers slip
The single biggest trap: English speakers pair هرگز with a plain, unnegated verb (mirroring "I never lie"), but Persian needs the verb itself negated too (نمیگویم, not میگویم) — leaving off the نمی- prefix is a genuine grammar error, not just a style choice. Also keep the g in گز hard, not soft like the g in "gem."