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Farsi · Pronunciation Guide
How do you pronounce "شش" in Farsi?
Say "shesh" — like English 'she' followed by 'sh', rhyming roughly with 'fresh' minus the f.
shesh
One syllable, so there's no stress contrast.
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Hear it in a sentence
کلاس ساعت شش شروع میشود.
Kelās sā'at-e shesh shoru' mishavad.
The class starts at six o'clock.
Listen: کلاس ساعت شش شروع میشود.
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"Kelās sā'at-e shesh shoru' mishavad" (The class starts at six o'clock) shows the ezafe -e explicitly spelled out in the romanization, linking sā'at ("time/hour") to shesh ("six") — this unwritten linking vowel is what makes "the hour of six" grammatically hang together.
Where English speakers slip
The two ش letters look identical on the page with no vowel mark between them, so learners sometimes try to say "shsh" with no vowel at all — remember there's an unwritten short 'e' making it two beats' worth of sound compressed into one syllable, "shesh."