Hindi · Pronunciation Guide

How do you pronounce "समुद्र" in Hindi?

Q: How do you pronounce समुद्र in Hindi?

समुद्र is pronounced with the stress described below. In IPA it is written /sə.mʊd̪.ɾə/. It means “sea.” suh-MUD-ruh — three beats, with a dental d and a final consonant cluster whose vowel disappears.

suh-MUD-ruh — three beats, with a dental d and a final consonant cluster whose vowel disappears.

समुद्र /sə.mʊd̪.ɾə/

samudra

Word-final schwa deletion is doing real work here: the spelling suggests a final vowel that nobody pronounces. What is left is compact and unemphatic despite the word's length on the page.

Listen: समुद्र

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Sound it out

sa s with a bare schwa; light and fast.

mu m with a short lax उ, rounded and brief.

dra A dental द pressed directly against a tapped र. The inherent vowel after र is deleted, so the word ends in a consonant cluster rather than a vowel.

Hear it in a sentence

गर्मियों में हम समुद्र तट पर जाते हैं।

Garmiyoṁ meṁ ham samudra taṭ par jaate haiṁ.

In summer we go to the seaside.

Listen: गर्मियों में हम समुद्र तट पर जाते हैं।

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"Garmiyoṁ meṁ ham samudra taṭ par jaate haiṁ" uses the nasalized oblique plural garmiyoṁ and pairs samudra with taṭ, which has two retroflex ट sounds. So the sentence moves from dental consonants in samudra to retroflexes in taṭ within one phrase.

Where English speakers slip

Beginners add a final vowel — "sa-mu-dra-a" — and make the d alveolar. Neither is right. Keep the d on the teeth, press it against a single tap, and stop; the word genuinely ends on a consonant cluster.