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Hindi · Pronunciation Guide
How do you pronounce "गाना" in Hindi?
GAA-naa — a plain unaspirated g and two long open vowels, with a dental n between them.
gaanaa
Two matched long vowels, so the word runs level. Its shape is identical to a verb infinitive, which is no coincidence — gaanaa is both the song and the act of singing, and the -naa ending has to stay long in either meaning.
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यह गाना बहुत अच्छा है।
Yeh gaanaa bahut achchhaa hai.
This song is very good.
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"Yeh gaanaa bahut achchhaa hai" makes achchhaa masculine to agree with gaanaa, so both words end in the same long aa. Achchhaa's geminated affricate with an aspirated release is the sentence's real difficulty.
Where English speakers slip
English rhythm reduces the second vowel to a schwa, giving "GAH-nuh," and speakers sometimes add breath to the g by over-correcting after learning about घ. Keep the g plain, and make both aa vowels equally long.