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Hindi · Pronunciation Guide
How do you pronounce "लगना" in Hindi?
LUG-naa — two syllables, not three; the schwa written after ग is deleted, so it is lag-naa.
lagnaa
A light closed syllable followed by a heavy open one, so the beat is on -naa. Schwa deletion is what creates that structure: spell it out letter by letter and you would get three light syllables, which is not how the word is said.
Listen: लगना
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Hear it in a sentence
मुझे भूख लगी है।
Mujhe bhookh lagee hai.
I am hungry.
Listen: मुझे भूख लगी है।
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"Mujhe bhookh lagee hai" puts the experiencer in the dative and makes the verb agree with bhookh, a feminine noun — hence lagee, not lagaa. Bhookh has a breathy-voiced भ at the front and an aspirated ख at the back, so both kinds of aspiration appear in one syllable.
Where English speakers slip
Beginners reading the Devanagari letter by letter produce "la-ga-naa," three syllables with a vowel that native speakers delete. The other slip is aspirating the g. Say it as two beats with a hard consonant junction in the middle, the way "bagnet" would sound if it were a word.