Farsi · Pronunciation Guide

How do you pronounce "خوبم" in Farsi?

KHOO-bahm, with a long, held 'oo' as in 'boot' (not the shorter 'oo' of 'book') and the stress firmly on that first syllable.

خوبم [ˈxuː.bæm]

khoobam

خوب is a one-syllable adjective; the unstressed enclitic -am ('I am') attaches without moving the stress, so it stays put on khoo.

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Sound it out

خو Raspy 'kh' (like Scottish 'loch', not an English 'k') plus a long 'oo' vowel (like 'oo' in 'boot') — the stressed syllable of the whole word.

بم 'b' plus unstressed 'am' — said quickly and lightly, simply tacking 'I am' onto the adjective.

Hear it in a sentence

متشکرم، خوبم.

Moteshakkeram, khoobam.

Thank you, I'm fine.

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'متشکرم، خوبم' shows how Persian freely drops the subject pronoun من ('I') since the verb/copula ending -am already marks first person — this is a null-subject language, so adding من here would sound over-explicit, not more correct.

Where English speakers slip

The 'oo' vowel is very frequently shortened by English speakers to match the lax vowel in 'book'; in Persian it should be a long, tense vowel held for a beat, closer to 'boot' — and خ needs to stay a rasp, not an English 'k'.