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Hindi · Pronunciation Guide
How do you pronounce "मेरा" in Hindi?
MAY-raa, both vowels long, and the r is one quick tap of the tongue tip.
meraa
Two heavy syllables of near-equal length; Hindi lets them balance rather than picking a winner. What matters more than accent placement is refusing to reduce either vowel to a schwa, which is what English rhythm would do to an unstressed syllable.
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Hear it in a sentence
यह मेरा घर है।
Yeh meraa ghar hai.
This is my house.
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"Yeh meraa ghar hai" pairs meraa with the masculine ghar, and that -aa ending is agreement, not decoration; with a feminine noun it becomes meree. The sentence also gives you ghar's breathy-voiced gh right after a long aa, a good place to hear the contrast.
Where English speakers slip
Two things drift. The first vowel gets an English "ay" glide, and the r gets an American colouring that swallows the vowel around it. Keep the tongue tip loose and flick it once — if you can hear r for more than an instant, it is too long.