Farsi · Pronunciation Guide

How do you pronounce "خانواده" in Farsi?

Say "khah-neh-VAH-deh", four syllables, with the stress on the very last one and a raspy "kh" to start.

خانواده /xɑː.ne.vɑː.de/

khānevāde

Regular Persian final-syllable stress: the emphasis lands on the last -de, even though it's a longer four-syllable word.

Listen: خانواده

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Sound it out

خا Raspy "kh" (like Scottish "loch") plus a long "ah" vowel.

نو "n" plus a short "o", like the "no" in "not" cut a bit shorter.

اده Long "ā" followed by a light "d" and a final short "e" (as in "bed"), forming the stressed final syllable "-vāde".

Hear it in a sentence

خانواده‌ام بزرگ است.

Khānevāde-am bozorg ast.

My family is big.

Listen: خانواده‌ام بزرگ است.

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"خانواده‌ام بزرگ است" ("My family is big") attaches the possessive -am after a silent connecting "y" glide (spelled with the letter ی, written خانواده‌ام), which Persian inserts whenever a word ending in a vowel takes a vowel-initial suffix.

Where English speakers slip

Learners often stress the third syllable ("khāne-VĀ-de") by analogy with how the word breaks visually into خانه + واده. The correct target keeps the stress all the way at the end: khā-ne-vā-DE.