Hindi · Pronunciation Guide

How do you pronounce "जगह" in Hindi?

juh-GUH — two schwas and a soft final h that many speakers barely release.

जगह /dʒə.ɡəɦ/

jagah

Quicker than its three written letters suggest — there is no long vowel, and the final h adds almost no weight, so nothing in this word should be drawn out.

Listen: जगह

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Sound it out

ja ज is a voiced affricate made slightly further forward than English j, released with no breath, plus a bare schwa.

gah Unaspirated ग with a second schwa, closed by a voiced ह that often fades to almost nothing in ordinary speech.

Hear it in a sentence

यह जगह बहुत सुंदर है।

Yeh jagah bahut sundar hai.

This place is very beautiful.

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"Yeh jagah bahut sundar hai" leaves sundar unchanged because it is an invariant adjective, so nothing in the sentence reveals that jagah is feminine. You would only see the gender if a -aa adjective or a possessive appeared.

Where English speakers slip

Both vowels get upgraded from schwas to full vowels, giving "jah-GAH," and the final h gets an English-style hard release. Keep both vowels neutral and let the h fade. Adding breathiness to the g would turn it into घ, a different letter.