Farsi · Pronunciation Guide

How do you pronounce "جوان" in Farsi?

Say "ja-VAHN", with a soft "j" like in English "jam" and a long, open "ah" in the stressed final syllable.

جوان /dʒævɒːn/

javān

Stress is on the final syllable, -VĀN, which carries the long ā vowel; the first syllable's vowel is short and unstressed by comparison.

Listen: جوان

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Sound it out

جـ A "j" sound exactly like the j in English "jam", followed by a short vowel like "u" in "cup".

وا A "v" as in "van" plus a long "ā" like the "a" in "father" — this is the stressed syllable, so hold the vowel clearly.

ن A final "n" as in "van", closing the word.

Hear it in a sentence

او هنوز جوان است.

U hanuz javān ast.

He/She is still young.

Listen: او هنوز جوان است.

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"U hanuz javān ast" (He/She is still young) shows u, a gender-neutral third-person pronoun covering both "he" and "she" — Persian pronouns don't mark gender at all, so context alone tells you which is meant, and hanuz ("still/yet") slots in right before the adjective.

Where English speakers slip

Learners sometimes pronounce the و as an English "w" (giving something like "ja-wahn"); in this word it's a true "v" consonant as in "van", not the glide "w" that و can represent in a few other loanwords.