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How do you pronounce "पतलून" in Hindi?
put-LOON — a dental t pressed straight against a bright l, then a long oo and a dental n.
patloon
The t-l junction has no vowel in it, which keeps the word to two beats rather than three, and the long oo at the end takes the beat.
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यह पतलून बहुत आरामदायक है।
Yeh patloon bahut aaraamdaayak hai.
These trousers are very comfortable.
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"Yeh patloon bahut aaraamdaayak hai" pairs it with aaraamdaayak, a long compound with three long aa vowels and a tap. Patloon is grammatically feminine in most usage, though nothing in this sentence marks it, since aaraamdaayak is invariant.
Where English speakers slip
The t goes alveolar and the l goes dark before the back vowel, giving something like "pat-loon" with an English cluster. Push the tongue tip forward to the teeth for the stop, then move it to the ridge with the tongue body low for a bright l.