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Farsi · Pronunciation Guide
How do you pronounce "هشت" in Farsi?
Say "hasht" — like English "gosht" (as in the loanword "ghost" isn't quite it) — think 'h' + 'ash' + 't', rhyming with a shortened "cashed" but with 'sh' not 'ch'.
hasht
One syllable, so no stress choice to make.
Listen: هشت
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Hear it in a sentence
مغازه ساعت هشت باز میشود.
Maghāze sā'at-e hasht bāz mishavad.
The shop opens at eight o'clock.
Listen: مغازه ساعت هشت باز میشود.
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"Maghāze sā'at-e hasht bāz mishavad" (The shop opens at eight o'clock) again shows the ezafe -e joining sā'at to hasht, and mishavad ("becomes/opens") as the ordinary present-tense verb for something opening.
Where English speakers slip
The final "-sht" cluster is pronounced as one tight unit — keep 'sh' and 't' distinct and adjacent, without slipping in an extra vowel sound between them.