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Hindi · Pronunciation Guide
How do you pronounce "गंदा" in Hindi?
GUN-daa — the nasal and the d are both dental, with the tongue tip on the teeth throughout the cluster.
gandaa
A short closed syllable feeding a long open one, so the beat is at the end. Since the nasal and stop share one tongue position, the middle of the word passes without any articulatory movement, which keeps it quicker than its spelling suggests.
Listen: गंदा
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Hear it in a sentence
मेरे हाथ गंदे हैं।
Mere haath gande haiṁ.
My hands are dirty.
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"Mere haath gande haiṁ" shifts the adjective to gande, the masculine plural, because haath is being treated as plural — and mere agrees the same way. Haath ends in थ, an aspirated dental, so a puff of air lands right before the g.
Where English speakers slip
English speakers make the -nd- alveolar as in "gunned," which shifts the whole cluster backward and sounds retroflex-adjacent to Hindi ears. Move the tongue tip forward onto the teeth for both consonants. Adding breathiness to the initial g would turn it into घ.