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Hindi · Pronunciation Guide
How do you pronounce "दाएँ" in Hindi?
DAA-eṁ — a dental d, then two vowels in hiatus with the second one nasalized.
daaeṁ
The shape is identical to baaeṁ — two long vocalic syllables with a hiatus between them — so the two direction words are rhythmic twins differing only in their opening consonant. That makes the initial d carry all the contrast.
Listen: दाएँ
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Hear it in a sentence
दाएँ मुड़िए, फिर सीधे जाइए।
Daaeṁ muṛiye, phir seedhe jaaiye.
Turn right, then go straight.
Listen: दाएँ मुड़िए, फिर सीधे जाइए।
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"Daaeṁ muṛiye, phir seedhe jaaiye" strings three polite imperatives and adverbs together, and phir has an aspirated फ — a puffed p, since there is no nuqta. Seedhe then adds a breathy-voiced ध, so the sentence covers both kinds of aspiration.
Where English speakers slip
The d comes out alveolar, which sounds retroflex-adjacent in Hindi and blurs the word against its neighbours, and the vowel hiatus collapses into a diphthong. Push the tongue tip onto the teeth, then give the two vowels their own separate beats with nasality on the second.