Farsi · Pronunciation Guide

How do you pronounce "آمدن" in Farsi?

Say ah-ma-DAN, three syllables, with a long open 'ah' first and stress on the last syllable.

آمدن /ɒːmæˈdæn/

āmadan

As an infinitive, āmadan stresses its final syllable -dan, even though it has three syllables total.

Listen: آمدن

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Sound it out

آ A long open ā, like 'a' in 'father'.

م m, exactly like English 'm'.

دن 'dan', stressed, with an unwritten short a between the d and the m before it — the whole middle-to-end stretch sounds like 'ma-dan'.

Hear it in a sentence

او به مهمانی می‌آید.

U be mehmāni mi'āyad.

He/She is coming to the party.

Listen: او به مهمانی می‌آید.

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In 'او به مهمانی می‌آید' (u be mehmāni miāyad, 'He/she is coming to the party'), miāyad carries stress on MI-. مهمانی (mehmāni, 'party') is built from mehmān ('guest') plus the -i suffix that turns it into 'a gathering of guests'.

Where English speakers slip

Because the present stem of āmadan is irregular (āy-, not amad-), learners sometimes wrongly build 'miāmadam' for the present tense instead of the correct miāyam — the stem change has to be memorized separately from the infinitive.