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How do you pronounce "शुरुआत" in Hindi?
shu-ru-AAT — three beats, with two short u vowels and a long aa closed by a dental t.
shuruaat
A genuine vowel-on-vowel junction sits between the second and third syllables, and that hiatus keeps the word at three beats rather than collapsing into two. The long aa at the end takes the weight.
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शुरुआत में यह मुश्किल था।
Shuruaat meṁ yeh mushkil thaa.
At the beginning it was difficult.
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"Shuruaat meṁ yeh mushkil thaa" attaches meṁ to give "at the beginning," and thaa ends the sentence with an aspirated dental थ. So an unaspirated dental in shuruaat and an aspirated one in thaa bracket the clause.
Where English speakers slip
The u-aa hiatus gets smoothed into a glide, producing "shu-rwaat" and losing a beat. Say the u and the aa as separate vowels. The final t then needs to be dental rather than the alveolar released t English supplies.