Hindi · Pronunciation Guide

How do you pronounce "अंत" in Hindi?

unt — a bare schwa closed by a dental nasal and a dental stop sharing one tongue position.

अंत /ənt̪/

ant

One short vowel with a two-consonant coda: heavy by position, minimal in real time. It should pass almost instantly, which is unusual for a noun carrying this much meaning.

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Sound it out

a The word opens on a bare schwa with no consonant; start the voicing gently rather than with a glottal catch.

nt A nasal and a stop both made on the teeth, so the tongue never moves across the cluster — only the airflow changes.

Hear it in a sentence

यह फ़िल्म का अंत है।

Yeh film kaa ant hai.

This is the end of the movie.

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"Yeh film kaa ant hai" uses kaa because ant is masculine, and film is a feminine loanword, so the possessive agrees with the thing possessed rather than the possessor. Film also begins with a nuqta फ़, a true f.

Where English speakers slip

The cluster of "aunt" puts both consonants on the alveolar ridge, which shifts the whole word backward and sounds retroflex-adjacent to Hindi ears. Move the tongue tip forward onto the teeth, and keep the vowel a neutral schwa.