Translate English to Persian
Persian (Farsi) is spoken by about 110 million people in Iran, Afghanistan (as Dari), and Tajikistan (as Tajik). It is one of the oldest living languages with a literary tradition spanning over a thousand years, producing poets like Rumi, Hafez, and Ferdowsi. Paste your English text above.
Common English to Persian translations
| English | Persian | Pronunciation | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hello | سلام | sah-LAHM | ||
| Good morning | صبح بخیر | sobh beh-KHAYR | ||
| Thank you | مرسی / ممنون | mer-SEE / mahm-NOON | ||
| Please | لطفاً | lot-FAHN | ||
| How much is this? | این چنده؟ | een CHAN-deh | ||
| Where is the bathroom? | دستشویی کجاست؟ | dahst-SHOO-yee ko-JAHST | ||
| I do not understand | متوجه نمیشم | moh-teh-VAH-jeh neh-MEE-shahm | ||
| Can you help me? | میتوانید کمکم کنید؟ | mee-tah-VAH-need ko-MAH-kahm KO-need | ||
| I would like tea | چای میخواهم | chai mee-KHAH-hahm | ||
| The bill, please | صورتحساب، لطفاً | soo-raht-heh-SAHB lot-FAHN | ||
| Nice to meet you | خوشوقتم | khosh-VAHG-tahm | ||
| Goodbye | خداحافظ | kho-DAH-hah-fez | ||
| I need a doctor | من به دکتر نیاز دارم | mahn beh dok-TOR nee-YAHZ DAH-rahm | ||
| Excuse me | ببخشید | beh-bakh-SHEED |
Tips for English to Persian translation
Persian uses a modified Arabic script that reads right-to-left. It has four letters not found in Arabic: پ (pe), چ (che), ژ (zhe), and گ (gaf). Despite sharing a script with Arabic, Persian is an Indo-European language, making it a distant relative of English, not Arabic.
Persian grammar is simpler than most European languages. There is no grammatical gender, no noun cases, and no definite article. Verbs conjugate for person and tense but follow very regular patterns. The main challenge is the script and the extensive vocabulary borrowed from Arabic.
Persian word order is SOV (subject-object-verb). Postpositions are used instead of prepositions: dar khaneh (in house) literally means “in house” but the preposition dar comes before the noun, unlike postpositions in Hindi or Turkish.
Persian has absorbed enormous amounts of Arabic vocabulary, especially in formal, religious, academic, and legal registers. The Persian spoken in Afghanistan (Dari) and Tajikistan (Tajik) use more native vocabulary and fewer Arabic loans. All three varieties are mutually intelligible.
About the Persian language
Persian is an Indo-European language belonging to the Iranian branch, making it a distant cousin of English. It has been a language of literature, poetry, and scholarship for over a thousand years. The works of Rumi, Hafez, Saadi, and Ferdowsi are considered among the greatest in world literature. Persian was the lingua franca of much of the Islamic world from the 9th to the 19th century.
Iran has about 87 million people and Persian is also spoken in Afghanistan (as Dari, about 25 million speakers) and Tajikistan (as Tajik, about 8 million, written in Cyrillic script). The Iranian diaspora is significant in the US (especially Los Angeles, sometimes called “Tehrangeles”), Canada, UK, and Germany. Persian cuisine, cinema (internationally acclaimed directors like Asghar Farhadi), and music maintain a global cultural presence.
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