Farsi · Pronunciation Guide

How do you pronounce "پدر" in Farsi?

Say "PEH-dar", stressing the first syllable, with a short, crisp "e" like in "pen".

پدر /pe.dær/

pedar

Like مادر, پدر belongs to the small group of kinship nouns stressed on the first syllable rather than the last — memorize it alongside مادر, برادر, خواهر, پسر, and دختر.

Listen: پدر

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Sound it out

پ English "p" as in "pen" — keep it distinct from ب ("b"), since Persian treats them as different letters/sounds, unlike some other regional languages.

د English "d" as in "dad".

ر A light tapped "r", not an English r.

Hear it in a sentence

پدرم در بانک کار می‌کند.

Pedaram dar bānk kār mikonad.

My father works at a bank.

Listen: پدرم در بانک کار می‌کند.

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"پدرم در بانک کار می‌کند" ("My father works at a bank") uses کار کردن ("to work", literally "to do work") and the preposition در ("at/in") before بانک — a compound-verb pattern extremely common in Persian.

Where English speakers slip

Because most Persian nouns are stressed on the last syllable, learners often say "pe-DAR". پدر is an exception and takes first-syllable stress, PE-dar — get this one wrong and it can sound like a different word entirely to native ears.