Farsi · Pronunciation Guide

How do you pronounce "پایین" in Farsi?

Say "pah-YEEN," with a long "father" vowel first and stress on the second syllable, which rhymes with "seen."

پایین /pɒːˈjiːn/

pāyin

Stress falls on the final syllable, -yin, following the regular Persian pattern.

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Sound it out

پا p (crisp, not puffed with extra air the way English p sometimes is) + a long "ā" (father), unstressed.

یی a long "ee" glide — the double ی lengthens the vowel — the stressed syllable, -YIN.

ن n, closing the word.

Hear it in a sentence

بروید پایین.

Beravid pāyin.

Go down.

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"بروید پایین" (Beravid pāyin) means "Go down," the direct counterpart to بروید بالا ("go up") — same imperative verb, opposite direction word.

Where English speakers slip

Don't rush the long "ee" in -yin into a short "in" like the English word "in" — it needs to be held, closer to "een." Learners also sometimes mix up بالا (up) and پایین (down) early on since both are short, frequent opposites.