Farsi · Pronunciation Guide

How do you pronounce "خوش آمدید" in Farsi?

Q: How do you pronounce خوش آمدید in Farsi?

خوش آمدید is pronounced with the stress described below. In IPA it is written [xoʃ ɒː.mæ.ˈdiːd]. It means “welcome.” khosh ah-mah-DEED, with khosh said quickly and unstressed and all the emphasis saved for the very last syllable.

khosh ah-mah-DEED, with khosh said quickly and unstressed and all the emphasis saved for the very last syllable.

خوش آمدید [xoʃ ɒː.mæ.ˈdiːd]

khosh āmadid

خوش is an unstressed modifier here; آمدید is a regular past-tense verb form (āmad + id), and Persian past tenses take ordinary final-syllable stress, unlike the present/imperative prefixes seen in other entries.

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Sound it out

خوش Raspy 'kh' (like Scottish 'loch') plus a short 'o' (as in 'more', clipped) and 'sh' — one unstressed syllable.

آ The long 'ā' vowel on its own (like 'a' in 'father'), opening the second word cleanly with no consonant before it.

مد 'm' plus a short 'a' (as in 'cat') and 'd' — unstressed 'ma'.

ید Long 'i' (like 'ee' in 'see') plus 'd' — this final syllable carries the stress of the whole phrase: āma-DID.

Hear it in a sentence

به ایران خوش آمدید!

Be Irān khosh āmadid!

Welcome to Iran!

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'به ایران خوش آمدید!' literally means 'to Iran, well [have you] come!' — آمدید is the formal/plural past tense of آمدن ('to come'), so this greeting is grammatically a statement about the guest's arrival rather than a fixed interjection the way English 'welcome' is.

Where English speakers slip

Learners often stress خوش, since it's the word carrying the obvious meaning ('good/pleasant'), but the phrase's real emphasis belongs on the final syllable of آمدید — and that آ should be a full long 'ah', not shortened to a quick English schwa.