Farsi · Pronunciation Guide

How do you pronounce "این" in Farsi?

Rhymes with English "seen" but starts with just a vowel — say "een," holding the vowel clearly.

این /iːn/

in

One syllable; carries clear, normal stress as a demonstrative pronoun/adjective.

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Sound it out

ا The starting vowel, here combining with the following ی to form one long "ee" sound, like "ee" in "see."

ی Completes the long "ee" vowel together with the preceding ا.

ن Like English "n" in "seen."

Hear it in a sentence

این چیست؟

In chist?

What is this?

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"In chist?" (این چیست؟) uses in ("this") as the subject, with chist being a contraction of che ("what") + ast ("is") — so the sentence literally packs "this what-is?" into just two words, more compact than the English equivalent.

Where English speakers slip

Because in ("this") looks and sounds close to English "in" (the preposition), English speakers occasionally misread or mispronounce it by analogy — remember Persian in means "this," pronounced with a long "ee" ("een"), and has no connection at all to the English word "in."