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Farsi · Pronunciation Guide
How do you pronounce "خواستن" in Farsi?
Say khahs-TAN — kh is the raspy back-of-throat sound of Scottish 'loch', the vowel is a long open 'ah', and stress falls on the second syllable.
khāstan
As an infinitive, khāstan stresses its final syllable -tan.
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Hear it in a sentence
چای میخواهید؟
Chāy mikhāhid?
Do you want tea?
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'چای میخواهید؟' (chāy mikhāhid?, 'Do you want tea?') shows the same silent-و pattern in mikhāhid — it's pronounced mi-khā-hid, not 'mi-khwā-hid', with the ه fully audible as a plain h. Stress falls on MI-.
Where English speakers slip
Because و is written right there in the spelling, English speakers instinctively pronounce a 'w' sound (khwāstan/mikhwāhid); the correct pronunciation drops it entirely — khāstan, mikhāhid.