Farsi · Pronunciation Guide

How do you pronounce "جنگ" in Farsi?

"jang" — just like the start of English 'jangle', rhymes with 'bang'.

جنگ [dʒæŋɡ]

jang

One syllable; the -ng at the end is pronounced as one nasal sound blending into a hard g, similar to English 'finger'.

Listen: جنگ

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Sound it out

جَ 'ja' — same as English 'j' in 'jam' plus the short flat 'a' of 'cat'.

نگ 'ng' — a nasal 'n' that blends into a hard 'g', like the middle of English 'finger' (not the pure nasal, silent-g ending of English 'sing').

Hear it in a sentence

جنگ زندگی مردم را نابود کرد.

Jang zendegi-ye mardom rā nābud kard.

War destroyed people's lives.

Listen: جنگ زندگی مردم را نابود کرد.

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جنگ زندگی مردم را نابود کرد ("War destroyed people's lives") uses the ezafe زندگی-ِ مردم ("people's lives"), marked as the object with را, and the compound verb نابود کرد ("destroyed," past tense).

Where English speakers slip

English speakers often pronounce the ending like the English word "sing," where the g is silent — Persian جنگ keeps the 'g' fully audible after the nasal, closer to "finger" than to "singer."