Farsi · Pronunciation Guide

How do you pronounce "مدرسه" in Farsi?

Say "mad-reh-SEH", three syllables, stress on the last one.

مدرسه /mæd.re.se/

madrese

Regular final-syllable stress, landing on the closing -se.

Listen: مدرسه

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Sound it out

مد "m" plus a short "a" (as in "cat") plus "d".

ر A light tapped r, connecting the syllables.

سه "s" plus a short final "e" (as in "bed"), forming the stressed final syllable.

Hear it in a sentence

بچه‌ها به مدرسه می‌روند.

Bacheh-hā be madrese miravand.

The children go to school.

Listen: بچه‌ها به مدرسه می‌روند.

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"بچه‌ها به مدرسه می‌روند" ("The children go to school") pluralizes بچه with the plural suffix -hā (بچه‌ها) and uses به ("to") before مدرسه, unlike دختر above where "to school" appeared with no preposition at all — both patterns exist in natural Persian depending on the verb and phrasing.

Where English speakers slip

Learners sometimes stress the first syllable ("MAD-re-se") by analogy with English "madrasa". Keep the stress at the very end: mad-re-SE.