Hindi · Pronunciation Guide

How do you pronounce "समुद्र तट" in Hindi?

Q: How do you pronounce समुद्र तट in Hindi?

समुद्र तट is pronounced with the stress described below. In IPA it is written /sə.mʊd̪.ɾə t̪əʈ/. It means “beach.” suh-MUD-ruh TUṬ — a dental cluster in the first word and a dental-then-retroflex pair in the second.

suh-MUD-ruh TUṬ — a dental cluster in the first word and a dental-then-retroflex pair in the second.

समुद्र तट /sə.mʊd̪.ɾə t̪əʈ/

samudra taṭ

No long vowels appear anywhere in this phrase, so it is light throughout and heavy only by position. What slows it is the tongue's journey in taṭ, from a teeth-contact stop to a curled-back one in a single beat.

Listen: समुद्र तट

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Sound it out

samu The s needs no adjustment at all; everything interesting in this syllable is in the vowel that follows it.

dra A stop on the teeth pressed directly against a tap, with the final inherent vowel deleted so the word ends on a cluster.

taṭ A dental त at the front and a retroflex ट at the back, so the tongue travels from the teeth to the roof of the mouth within one syllable.

Hear it in a sentence

हम समुद्र तट पर जा रहे हैं।

Ham samudra taṭ par jaa rahe haiṁ.

We are going to the beach.

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"Ham samudra taṭ par jaa rahe haiṁ" attaches par to the whole phrase and uses the plural rahe haiṁ for ham. Taṭ sits directly before par, so a retroflex stop runs straight into an unaspirated p.

Where English speakers slip

Learners restore a final vowel on samudra and make both consonants in taṭ alveolar, which erases the dental-versus-retroflex contrast that the phrase demonstrates so neatly. Stop after the cluster in samudra, then move the tongue deliberately from teeth to palate across taṭ.