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Hindi · Pronunciation Guide
How do you pronounce "दुकान" in Hindi?
du-KAAN — a dental d, a short lax u, a dry k, and a long aa closed by a dental n.
dukaan
A light syllable feeding a heavy one, with the long vowel at the end taking the beat. The two dental consonants bracket the word and the velar sits in the middle, which gives it a symmetrical, easy shape once the aspiration is suppressed.
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Hear it in a sentence
दुकान सात बजे बंद होती है।
Dukaan saat baje band hotee hai.
The shop closes at seven.
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"Dukaan saat baje band hotee hai" uses the feminine hotee to agree with dukaan, and band before it has an all-dental cluster. So the sentence is full of teeth-contact consonants and contains no retroflexes at all — worth noticing as a contrast case.
Where English speakers slip
The k picks up English aspiration and both nasal-and-stop consonants slide back to the alveolar ridge. Keep the k dry and push the d and n forward onto the teeth. Lengthening the first vowel is the third habit; it should be genuinely short.