Hindi · Pronunciation Guide

How do you pronounce "आसमान" in Hindi?

Q: How do you pronounce आसमान in Hindi?

आसमान is pronounced with the stress described below. In IPA it is written /aːs.maːn/. It means “sky.” AAS-maan — two long open vowels, with a dental n closing the word.

AAS-maan — two long open vowels, with a dental n closing the word.

आसमान /aːs.maːn/

aasmaan

Learners tend to shorten one of the two identical vowels for contrast; Hindi keeps them the same length and lets the consonants do the differentiating. The result is level and slow.

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Sound it out

aas The word opens on a long आ with no consonant in front; begin the voicing smoothly, then close on s.

maan A bilabial m, a second long aa of identical quality, and a dental न with the tongue tip on the upper teeth.

Hear it in a sentence

आज आसमान बिल्कुल साफ़ है।

Aaj aasmaan bilkul saaf hai.

The sky is completely clear today.

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"Aaj aasmaan bilkul saaf hai" opens with two aa-initial words in a row, so the sentence begins with three long open vowels before bilkul's short ones. Saaf then ends on a nuqta f, a true labiodental rather than an aspirated p.

Where English speakers slip

The final n comes out alveolar, which retracts the vowel before it, and the initial vowel gets a hard glottal onset. Push the tongue tip forward to the teeth for the n and let the word start with a gentle onset. Both aa vowels need full, equal length.