Farsi · Pronunciation Guide

How do you pronounce "مردم" in Farsi?

Say "mar-DOM", stressing the second syllable — this word means "people" collectively, not "person".

مردم /mær.dom/

mardom

Regular final-syllable stress; don't confuse this with مرد ("man"), which is a single syllable and unrelated in meaning here despite the shared root letters.

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Sound it out

مر "m" plus a light tapped r plus a short "a" as in "cat", forming the unstressed first syllable.

دم "d" plus a short "o" (as in "dome" but cut short) plus "m", forming the stressed final syllable.

Hear it in a sentence

مردم این شهر مهربان هستند.

Mardom-e in shahr mehrabān hastand.

The people of this city are kind.

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"مردم این شهر مهربان هستند" ("The people of this city are kind") treats مردم as grammatically plural — hence هستند ("are", plural) rather than است ("is", singular) — even though مردم itself has no plural suffix, since it's inherently a collective/plural noun.

Where English speakers slip

The most common error is treating مردم as singular and pairing it with است instead of هستند. Remember مردم = "people" (plural in meaning) and always takes plural verb agreement.