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Farsi · Pronunciation Guide
How do you pronounce "خوشحالی" in Farsi?
"khosh-hah-LEE" — three syllables, stress on the last; note the doubled 'h' from خوش + حال is pronounced clearly, not merged away.
khoshhāli
Stress falls on the final syllable li; the word is literally a compound of خوش ("good") and حال ("mood/state") plus the -i abstract-noun suffix.
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خوشحالی او واقعی بود.
Khoshhāli-ye u vāghe'i bud.
Her happiness was real.
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خوشحالی او واقعی بود ("Her happiness was real") uses the ezafe خوشحالی-ِ او ("her happiness"), واقعی ("real, genuine"), and بود, the past tense of "to be."
Where English speakers slip
Rushing through the middle 'h' between khosh and āli so it disappears is the classic mistake — both the kh and the h are separate, real consonants, and neither should be dropped.