Hindi · Pronunciation Guide

How do you pronounce "आसान" in Hindi?

AA-saan with two long open vowels and a dental n at the end.

आसान /aː.saːn/

aasaan

The two syllables carry the same long vowel, so weight gives no clear winner and the word runs level. What makes a learner's version sound off is usually English reduction of the second vowel, not misplaced accent.

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Sound it out

aa A word-initial long आ. Start voicing smoothly instead of with the glottal punch English uses before a stressed initial vowel.

saan Plain s, a second long aa, and a nasal made with the tongue against the upper teeth rather than the ridge.

Hear it in a sentence

यह अभ्यास आसान है।

Yeh abhyaas aasaan hai.

This exercise is easy.

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"Yeh abhyaas aasaan hai" places abhyaas immediately before it, and abhyaas contains a breathy-voiced भ inside a consonant cluster — one of the harder junctions in the course. Aasaan itself is invariant, so it never changes for gender.

Where English speakers slip

The final n is the giveaway: an English alveolar n sounds slightly retracted next to Hindi's dental one, and it drags the vowel before it back too. Push the tongue tip forward to the teeth. The other slip is a hard glottal onset on the first vowel.