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Hindi · Pronunciation Guide
How do you pronounce "बिस्तर" in Hindi?
BIS-tur — a short lax i, a dental t, a schwa, and a single flick at the end.
bistar
This is noticeably quicker than most nouns in the chapter, since neither vowel is long, and English speakers almost always over-lengthen the opening. Its weight is purely positional.
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Hear it in a sentence
मैं जल्दी सोने जाता हूँ।
Maiṁ jaldee sone jaataa hooṁ.
I go to bed early.
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"Maiṁ jaldee sone jaataa hooṁ" is worth noticing because it does not use bistar at all: Hindi says "go to sleep" with the oblique infinitive sone rather than naming the bed. That is the idiomatic way to express going to bed.
Where English speakers slip
The t comes out alveolar and, in American English, often as a flap between the s and the schwa — which lands near ड़ in Hindi. Keep it a full dental stop. The final r must also be a single contact rather than an r-coloured vowel.