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How do you pronounce "काफ़ी" in Hindi?
KAA-fee — a dry k, a long aa, and a true f from the nuqta, then a long ee.
kaafee
Both syllables need full duration; the adverbial meaning does not license the kind of reduction English applies to unstressed function words. The two long vowels differ in quality, which keeps it from sounding flat.
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आपने काफ़ी खा लिया।
Aapne kaafee khaa liyaa.
You have eaten quite enough.
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"Aapne kaafee khaa liyaa" takes the ergative aapne because khaa liyaa is a perfective transitive, and kaafee here is an adverb meaning "quite enough" rather than a quantity. Khaa opens with an aspirated ख, so a puff lands directly after the word.
Where English speakers slip
Ignoring the nuqta gives an aspirated p, "kaaphee," which is wrong for this Persian-derived word. Aspirating the initial k is the mirror error — the puff belongs to the letter that does not have it here. Keep the k dry and the f clean.