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How do you pronounce "تمام" in Farsi?
Say "tuh-MAHM," with a long, open "ah" (as in "father") on the stressed second syllable.
tamām
Stress falls on the second, longer syllable, -مام ("-mām"), which holds the long ā vowel — keep the first تـ syllable short and light by comparison.
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تمام روز کار کردم.
Tamām-e ruz kār kardam.
I worked all day.
Listen: تمام روز کار کردم.
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In تمام روز کار کردم, تمام روز means "all day," with تمام acting like an adjective modifying روز ("day") to mean the entirety of it — a very common pattern (تمام + noun) for saying "the whole/all of" something. کار کردم ("I worked") is a simple past-tense compound verb, and note that unlike some of the other example sentences in this set, no formal ezafe -e is needed between تمام and روز in this everyday phrase.
Where English speakers slip
Learners sometimes shorten the vowel in the second syllable, saying something closer to "ta-mam" with a flat American "a" — but it needs to be the long, open "ah" of "father." It's also worth not confusing تمام ("all/entire") with تمام شدن ("to finish/run out"), a related but distinct compound verb built from the same root.