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How do you pronounce "शादी" in Hindi?
SHAA-dee — a long aa, a dental d on the teeth, and a long ee at the end.
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Nothing needs emphasis here; the risk is the English habit of reducing a final unstressed vowel, which would erase the noun's characteristic shape. Both long vowels should sound equally full.
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मेरी बहन की शादी है।
Meree behen kee shaadee hai.
My sister is getting married.
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"Meree behen kee shaadee hai" uses kee because shaadee is feminine, and behen takes the oblique-free form since kee follows directly. Behen's ह-coloured vowels contrast with shaadee's two clean long ones.
Where English speakers slip
The d lands on the alveolar ridge for English speakers, and in American English an intervocalic d becomes a flap — which in Hindi collides with ड़. Keep it a full dental stop. The final vowel also needs to stay long rather than tapering off.