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Farsi · Pronunciation Guide
How do you pronounce "سیاه" in Farsi?
Say "see-AH" with a soft 'h' at the very end — like English "see" followed by the long 'ā' of "father" plus a breathy 'h'.
siāh
Two syllables, with stress on the final syllable "āh."
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او یک ماشین سیاه دارد.
U yek māshin-e siāh dārad.
He/She has a black car.
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"U yek māshin-e siāh dārad" (He/She has a black car) uses the ezafe -e to link māshin ("car") to its adjective siāh ("black") — literally "car-EZAFE black," with the adjective following the noun, the reverse of English word order.
Where English speakers slip
In Persian, adjectives come after the noun and are connected by an unwritten ezafe vowel (māshin-e siāh, not siāh māshin). English speakers instinctively want to put the color word first, as in English "black car" — resist that instinct.