Hindi · Pronunciation Guide

How do you pronounce "आखिरी" in Hindi?

Q: How do you pronounce आखिरी in Hindi?

आखिरी is pronounced with the stress described below. In IPA it is written /aː.kʰɪ.ɾiː/. It means “last.” AA-khi-ree — three beats, with a puffed kh, a short middle vowel, and a long ee at the end.

AA-khi-ree — three beats, with a puffed kh, a short middle vowel, and a long ee at the end.

आखिरी /aː.kʰɪ.ɾiː/

aakhiree

Heavy, light, heavy — the short middle syllable dips between two long ones, giving the word a distinctive rocking shape. Losing that dip by lengthening the middle vowel is the fastest way to make it sound wrong.

Listen: आखिरी

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Sound it out

aa A long open आ starting the word with no consonant onset.

khi Aspirated ख with a short lax इ. In Urdu this word is written with خ, a throaty fricative, and some speakers keep that sound; with the plain Devanagari spelling, an aspirated stop is standard.

ree One quick tap into a long ई, closing the word on its second long vowel.

Hear it in a sentence

यह आखिरी टुकड़ा है।

Yeh aakhiree ṭukṛaa hai.

This is the last piece.

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"Yeh aakhiree ṭukṛaa hai" pairs it with ṭukṛaa, which opens with retroflex ट and contains ड़, the retroflex flap — so the noun demands two backward tongue movements right after the word's aspirated kh. Aakhiree itself is invariant.

Where English speakers slip

The aspiration on kh gets dropped, and the middle vowel gets stretched to match the long ones around it. Both flatten the word. A third habit is an American r in the final syllable, which lengthens it and colours the ee; keep it as one brief contact.