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Hindi · Pronunciation Guide
How do you pronounce "रखना" in Hindi?
RUKH-naa in two beats — tap the r, keep the vowel a schwa, and release the kh with real air.
rakhnaa
Light first syllable, heavy second, and the aspiration on kh lengthens the junction between them. Because the schwa is deleted after ख, the two consonants meet directly and the word never reaches three beats.
Listen: रखना
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Hear it in a sentence
किताब मेज़ पर रखिए।
Kitaab mez par rakhiye.
Put the book on the table.
Listen: किताब मेज़ पर रखिए।
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"Kitaab mez par rakhiye" swaps the infinitive for the polite imperative rakhiye, which keeps the aspirated kh intact. Mez ends in a nuqta ज़, so it is a buzzing z immediately before the p of par — a voiced-to-voiceless transition worth articulating cleanly.
Where English speakers slip
Most learners drop the aspiration and produce "ruknaa," which is a different verb meaning "to stop." That makes this one of the few places where a missing puff creates a genuine minimal-pair confusion, so the breath after the k has to be audible.