Hindi · Pronunciation Guide

How do you pronounce "पेट" in Hindi?

payṭ — a dry unaspirated p, a flat long e, and a retroflex ṭ with the tongue curled back.

पेट /peːʈ/

peṭ

A long vowel closed by a stop, so the syllable is substantial — but the retroflex closure at the end takes time to set up, which makes the word feel slower than its single beat suggests.

Listen: पेट

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Sound it out

pe The lips part with no puff at all, and the long ए that follows stays in one position without gliding upward.

ṭ Retroflex ट: curl the tongue tip up and back so it strikes behind the alveolar ridge, then release it without aspiration.

Hear it in a sentence

मेरा पेट भर गया है।

Meraa peṭ bhar gayaa hai.

My stomach is full.

Listen: मेरा पेट भर गया है।

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"Meraa peṭ bhar gayaa hai" uses bhar with its breathy-voiced भ and the compound verb gayaa to signal completion. So the sentence pairs a retroflex stop in the noun with a breathy stop in the verb — two different Hindi-specific features side by side.

Where English speakers slip

The English alveolar t sits between Hindi ट and त and reads as neither. Curl the tongue tip back until the position feels exaggerated. The vowel is the second issue: English "pay" ends in a glide, and this one must stay motionless.