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Hindi · Pronunciation Guide
How do you pronounce "जानवर" in Hindi?
JAAN-vur — a dry j, a long aa, a dental n, then the loose Hindi व and a final flick.
jaanvar
Weight sits at the front and the word falls away into a schwa plus a tap. English speakers who expect a final beat will inflate the ending and level the two syllables out.
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कुत्ता मेरा पसंदीदा जानवर है।
Kuttaa meraa pasandeedaa jaanvar hai.
The dog is my favorite animal.
Listen: कुत्ता मेरा पसंदीदा जानवर है।
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"Kuttaa meraa pasandeedaa jaanvar hai" makes meraa and pasandeedaa masculine to agree with jaanvar, and kuttaa contains a geminated dental त्त. So the sentence has a held dental closure in the subject and a plain one in the predicate.
Where English speakers slip
The final syllable gets rhoticised into "-varr," and the n slides back to the alveolar ridge. Keep the nasal on the teeth and the r down to a single contact. The initial j also picks up a small English puff, which nudges it toward झ.