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Hindi · Pronunciation Guide
How do you pronounce "ऊपर" in Hindi?
OO-pur — a long oo at the front, an unaspirated p, a schwa, and one flicked r.
oopar
This word runs the opposite way from most in this chapter: heavy first, light second. The long initial vowel takes the weight and the closing syllable is a quick schwa plus tap, so English speakers who reach for a final stress will overshoot.
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मेरा कमरा ऊपर है।
Meraa kamraa oopar hai.
My room is upstairs.
Listen: मेरा कमरा ऊपर है।
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"Meraa kamraa oopar hai" ends the adjective chain with two -aa words before oopar's long oo, so the sentence moves through three long vowels of different qualities. Oopar takes no postposition here because it is already an adverb of place.
Where English speakers slip
The final syllable gets rhoticised into "-per" with an American r that lasts the whole vowel. Hindi keeps the schwa clean and adds one brief contact at the end. Aspirating the p is the other habit; in the middle of a word English mostly suppresses it anyway, so use that.