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Hindi · Pronunciation Guide
How do you pronounce "और" in Hindi?
Closer to "or" than to "our" — a single long rounded vowel, then one flicked r.
aur
One heavy syllable, but as a conjunction it usually sits unstressed between the items it joins, borrowing rhythm from them. Giving it a strong beat makes it sound contrastive, as if you were correcting someone.
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Hear it in a sentence
चाय और पानी दीजिए।
Chaay aur paanee deejiye.
Tea and water, please.
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"Chaay aur paanee deejiye" joins two nouns with no article and no plural marking, and the polite imperative deejiye carries the whole request. The two joined items happen to be feminine and masculine respectively, which makes no difference at all to aur.
Where English speakers slip
American English speakers turn the r into a full rhotic and the vowel into "ow," yielding something like "our." That is two errors, and the diphthong one is more damaging: standard Hindi औ does not move. Freeze the vowel, then tap once.