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Hindi · Pronunciation Guide
How do you pronounce "पतझड़" in Hindi?
PUT-jhuṛ — a dental t against a breathy-voiced jh, and a retroflex flap at the end. Three hard things in one short word.
patjhaṛ
There is no long vowel here at all; the word's bulk comes from the consonant cluster in the middle and the flap at the end. The breathy release stretches the junction between syllables more than any vowel does.
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Hear it in a sentence
पतझड़ में पेड़ों के रंग सुंदर होते हैं।
Patjhaṛ meṁ peṛoṁ ke rang sundar hote haiṁ.
In autumn the colors of the trees are beautiful.
Listen: पतझड़ में पेड़ों के रंग सुंदर होते हैं।
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"Patjhaṛ meṁ peṛoṁ ke rang sundar hote haiṁ" puts peṛ into the nasalized oblique plural peṛoṁ, so a second retroflex flap appears a few syllables later — this time between vowels, where it is much easier. Comparing the two positions is instructive.
Where English speakers slip
Every one of the three features tends to go: the t becomes alveolar, the jh loses its breathiness and becomes a plain English j, and the final flap becomes a d or disappears. Build it backwards — practise the flap alone, then the breathy affricate, then join them to a teeth-contact t.