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Hindi · Pronunciation Guide
How do you pronounce "बदलना" in Hindi?
buh-DUL-naa — three beats, two schwas, one dental d, and a clear l.
badalnaa
Two light syllables leading to one heavy one, so the word rises steadily to its ending. Unusually for a verb of this shape, the schwa after द survives rather than deleting, which is why badalnaa has three beats where bolnaa has two.
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मैं नौकरी बदलना चाहता हूँ।
Maiṁ naukree badalnaa chaahtaa hooṁ.
I want to change jobs.
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"Maiṁ naukree badalnaa chaahtaa hooṁ" keeps the infinitive intact before chaahtaa, and naukree opens with औ, a single long rounded vowel rather than a diphthong. The verb's three light-to-heavy beats contrast neatly with naukree's two heavy ones.
Where English speakers slip
American speakers flap the intervocalic d, making it identical to the tap in "ladder" — which in Hindi collides with ड़. It must be a full dental stop, tongue against the teeth. The l then tends to darken before the n, and both schwas tend to be over-pronounced as full vowels.