Hindi · Pronunciation Guide

How do you pronounce "बसंत" in Hindi?

buh-SUNT — two schwas, and a final cluster where the nasal and the stop are both dental.

बसंत /bə.sənt̪/

basant

Compact, which is at odds with how substantial a season word feels semantically. Its weight is purely positional, coming from the closing cluster rather than from any vowel.

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Sound it out

ba Voiced ब with no breath in it, plus a bare schwa.

sant An s, a second schwa, and a nasal-plus-stop cluster made entirely on the teeth — the tongue tip does not move across it.

Hear it in a sentence

बसंत में फूल खिलते हैं।

Basant meṁ phool khilte haiṁ.

In spring the flowers bloom.

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"Basant meṁ phool khilte haiṁ" attaches meṁ for the season and uses phool, which begins with an aspirated फ — no nuqta, so it is a puffed p rather than an f. Khilte adds a second aspirated stop, this time velar.

Where English speakers slip

English speakers open both schwas into full vowels and make the -nt cluster alveolar as in "bassinet." Keep both vowels neutral and push the tongue tip forward onto the teeth for the nasal and the stop, releasing the t almost silently.