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Hindi · Pronunciation Guide
How do you pronounce "हम" in Hindi?
hum, with a voiced h and a bare schwa — not the long vowel of English "ham."
ham
Short vowel, closed syllable: heavy by position but very brief in duration. As a subject pronoun it sits unstressed at the head of the clause, so it should almost blend into the following word.
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हम समुद्र तट पर जा रहे हैं।
Ham samudra taṭ par jaa rahe haiṁ.
We are going to the seaside.
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"Ham samudra taṭ par jaa rahe haiṁ" needs plural agreement all the way through — rahe and haiṁ — and samudra ends with a consonant cluster plus a final schwa that is normally deleted, so it sounds like sa-mud-r. Taṭ has two retroflex ट sounds bracketing a schwa.
Where English speakers slip
The roman spelling drags English speakers toward the vowel of "ham" or "hum" with a strong voiceless h. Hindi asks for a much weaker, voiced onset and a colourless vowel, so the whole word is quieter and shorter than an English-tuned version.