Hindi · Pronunciation Guide

How do you pronounce "फ़ोन करना" in Hindi?

Q: How do you pronounce फ़ोन करना in Hindi?

फ़ोन करना is pronounced with the stress described below. In IPA it is written /foːn kəɾ.naː/. It means “to call (on the phone).” fohn KUR-naa — a genuine f, a pure long o, and a dental n before the light verb.

fohn KUR-naa — a genuine f, a pure long o, and a dental n before the light verb.

फ़ोन करना /foːn kəɾ.naː/

fon karnaa

Heavy then light then heavy: fon has a long vowel, kar has a schwa, and -naa has a long vowel. That is the standard rhythm for the whole noun-plus-karnaa family, and it is worth internalising because the pattern recurs dozens of times.

Listen: फ़ोन करना

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Sound it out

fon फ़ with a nuqta gives a true labiodental f; the o is long and monophthongal, and the n is dental rather than alveolar.

kar Unaspirated क, a bare schwa, and one tapped r — the light-verb half of the compound.

naa Dental n and long aa closing the infinitive, exactly as in every other karnaa compound.

Hear it in a sentence

मैं आपको बाद में फ़ोन करूँगा।

Maiṁ aapko baad meṁ fon karooṁgaa.

I will call you later.

Listen: मैं आपको बाद में फ़ोन करूँगा।

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"Maiṁ aapko baad meṁ fon karooṁgaa" marks the recipient with aapko and puts the future ending on the light verb only, leaving fon untouched. Baad ends in a dental d directly before meṁ's nasalized vowel, so keep the tongue forward through that junction.

Where English speakers slip

English speakers diphthongise the o to "phone" and give the n an alveolar articulation. The f itself usually survives, since the nuqta matches the English sound, but the vowel is the tell: freeze the lips in a rounded position and do not let them close further as the vowel ends.