Farsi · Pronunciation Guide

How do you pronounce "کردن" in Farsi?

Say kar-DAN, with a short a like the 'u' in 'cup' and stress on the second syllable.

کردن /kærˈdæn/

kardan

As a plain infinitive, kardan stresses its final syllable -dan.

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Sound it out

ک k, slightly more clipped than English 'k' but close enough — like 'k' in 'skate' rather than 'cat'.

ر A tapped r, like the Spanish/Italian single r, not the English 'r'.

دن 'dan', stressed, a plain d plus the short a of 'cup'.

Hear it in a sentence

چه کار می‌کنید؟

Che kār mikonid?

What are you doing?

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In 'چه کار می‌کنید؟' (che kār mikonid?, 'What do you do?'), kardan appears conjugated as mikonid, with the present-tense prefix mi- carrying the primary stress: MI-konid, not mi-ko-NID. Note this sentence already shows kardan paired with kār (work) as a set phrase, previewing the light-verb kār kardan later in this list.

Where English speakers slip

English speakers often stress the verb stem (mi-KO-nid) out of habit, but Persian always puts the primary stress on the mi- prefix itself in present-tense forms.