Hindi · Pronunciation Guide

How do you pronounce "पड़ोसी" in Hindi?

Q: How do you pronounce पड़ोसी in Hindi?

पड़ोसी is pronounced with the stress described below. In IPA it is written /pə.ɽoː.siː/. It means “neighbor.” puh-ROH-see — unaspirated p, a retroflex flap, then two long vowels.

puh-ROH-see — unaspirated p, a retroflex flap, then two long vowels.

पड़ोसी /pə.ɽoː.siː/

paṛosee

One light syllable feeding two heavy ones, so the word broadens across three beats. The flap between the first and second syllables is abrupt rather than long, which keeps the opening genuinely brief.

Listen: पड़ोसी

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Sound it out

pa प with no puff at all plus a bare schwa; hold a hand in front of your mouth and feel nothing.

ṛo ड़ as a single backward flick, opening into a long ओ that stays in one lip position.

see Plain s with a long tense ई closing the word.

Hear it in a sentence

मेरे पड़ोसी बहुत अच्छे हैं।

Mere paṛosee bahut achchhe haiṁ.

My neighbors are very nice.

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"Mere paṛosee bahut achchhe haiṁ" is plural throughout — mere, achchhe, haiṁ — even though paṛosee itself does not change shape, since masculine nouns in -ee are invariant. All the number information sits in the words around it.

Where English speakers slip

Two failures: an aspirated p, which pushes the consonant toward फ, and a plain d or English r for ड़. The flap is the harder one. Start from a retroflex ड position, then flick forward instead of holding the closure — a very fast movement that should be over before you register it.