Hindi · Pronunciation Guide

How do you pronounce "अंदर आना" in Hindi?

Q: How do you pronounce अंदर आना in Hindi?

अंदर आना is pronounced with the stress described below. In IPA it is written /ən.d̪əɾ aː.naː/. It means “to come in / to enter.” UN-dur AA-naa — two schwas in the first word, a dental d, and two long aa vowels in the second.

UN-dur AA-naa — two schwas in the first word, a dental d, and two long aa vowels in the second.

अंदर आना /ən.d̪əɾ aː.naː/

andar aanaa

Andar is entirely light — two short vowels — and aanaa is entirely heavy, so the phrase has a clear rise from front to back. English speakers tend to stress ANdar and flatten aanaa, which inverts the natural pattern.

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Sound it out

an A bare schwa closed by a dental n; the nasal takes its place from the following द, so tongue and teeth stay in contact.

dar Dental द, another schwa, and a single tapped r. Nothing in this word has a long vowel at all.

aanaa The verb, with two long open vowels; the contrast with the preceding all-schwa word is the phrase's rhythm.

Hear it in a sentence

क्या मैं अंदर आ सकता हूँ?

Kyaa maiṁ andar aa saktaa hooṁ?

May I come in?

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"Kyaa maiṁ andar aa saktaa hooṁ?" reduces the verb to the stem aa before saktaa, so the phrase becomes andar aa. The question opens with kyaa as a yes-no marker, which is why the word order otherwise stays declarative.

Where English speakers slip

The d in andar routinely comes out as an English alveolar d, which sounds retroflex-adjacent to a Hindi ear. It should be dental, made with the tongue tip against the upper teeth — and because the n before it is also dental, the tongue should not move between them at all. Add an American r at the end and the word becomes unrecognisable.