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Hindi · Pronunciation Guide
How do you pronounce "बाएँ" in Hindi?
BAA-eṁ — two vowels side by side with no consonant between them, and the second one nasalized.
baaeṁ
Both syllables are long and built entirely from vowels, so the word is unusually open and slow. The hiatus between them is what keeps it at two beats; smoothing it into a glide would remove one.
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चौराहे से बाएँ मुड़िए।
Chauraahe se baaeṁ muṛiye.
Turn left at the crossing.
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"Chauraahe se baaeṁ muṛiye" uses the oblique chauraahe before se and ends with muṛiye, which contains ड़, the retroflex flap. So the sentence pairs a purely vocalic direction word with a consonant-heavy verb.
Where English speakers slip
The two vowels get fused into a diphthong and the nasalization becomes a full n or ng. Say the aa and the e as separate beats with a slight break, and let the nose open during the second vowel with the tongue staying clear of the palate.