Hindi · Pronunciation Guide

How do you pronounce "के साथ" in Hindi?

Q: How do you pronounce के साथ in Hindi?

के साथ is pronounced with the stress described below. In IPA it is written /keː saːt̪ʰ/. It means “with.” kay SAATH — the final th is a dental t with a puff of air, not the th of English "bath."

kay SAATH — the final th is a dental t with a puff of air, not the th of English "bath."

के साथ /keː saːt̪ʰ/

ke saath

The second word is much heavier than the first — long vowel plus an aspirated coda against a bare long e — so the phrase peaks on saath. Together they behave as one postpositional unit trailing the noun.

Listen: के साथ

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Sound it out

ke Long e after an unaspirated k; the oblique form of kaa, unstressed in the phrase.

saa A voiceless s opening onto a long आ; this is the rhythmic core of the phrase and needs full duration.

th थ is an aspirated dental stop: tongue tip on the upper teeth, full closure, then a strong breath. It is emphatically not a fricative.

Hear it in a sentence

मैं आपके साथ आ रहा हूँ।

Maiṁ aapke saath aa rahaa hooṁ.

I am coming with you.

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"Maiṁ aapke saath aa rahaa hooṁ" again forces the oblique aapke before the postposition, and the progressive aa rahaa hooṁ agrees masculine. Notice the run of long aa vowels through aapke saath aa raahaa, broken only by short function syllables.

Where English speakers slip

The reflex to avoid is reading th as a fricative, giving "saath" the ending of English "path." Hindi थ is a stop: the airflow is completely blocked, then released with breath. A secondary error is putting the closure on the alveolar ridge, which drifts toward retroflex ठ.