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Farsi · Pronunciation Guide
How do you pronounce "سوال" in Farsi?
"so-AHL" — two syllables, stress on the second; careful speech has a tiny catch in the throat between them (a glottal stop from the root's ء), though many speakers glide right over it.
soāl
Stress falls on the final syllable āl; the vowel sequence o + ā is normally kept as two distinct vowels rather than merged into one, unlike what an English speaker's instinct might do.
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Hear it in a sentence
سوالی دارم.
Soāli dāram.
I have a question.
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سوالی دارم ("I have a question") is a simple two-word sentence: the indefinite suffix -i on سوال ("a question") plus دارم, "I have," the first-person singular of داشتن.
Where English speakers slip
Collapsing the two vowels together into something like "sol" is the most common mistake — keep the 'o' and 'ā' as two separate vowel sounds, even though fast, casual speech may glide lightly between them.