Learn Farsi: پدر من پنجاه و دو ساله است.

Just like in English, we say the tens first, then the ones. But in Farsi, we connect them with the word و (and). So, پنجاه (fifty) + و (and) + دو (two) becomes پنجاه و دو. In spoken Farsi, that و is usually pronounced as a short "o" sound.

The word for year is سال. Why is it written as ساله here?

Adding the suffix ـه (pronounced "eh") to a noun like سال (year) turns it into an adjective. While سال just means "year", ساله means "-year-old". So پنجاه و دو ساله translates directly to "a fifty-two-year-old".

How does پدر من translate to "my father"?

In Farsi, possessive phrases are built backwards compared to English. You say the object first (پدر for father), add a hidden "e" sound called the Ezāfe, and then the owner (من for I/me). So پدر من literally means "father of me".

Why does the verb است (is) come at the very end?

Farsi sentences follow a different order than English. The main verb almost always goes at the very end of the sentence. Here, the subject is پدر من (my father), followed by his age, and the verb است (is) finishes the sentence.