Hindi · Pronunciation Guide

How do you pronounce "ज़रूर" in Hindi?

Q: How do you pronounce ज़रूर in Hindi?

ज़रूर is pronounced with the stress described below. In IPA it is written /zə.ɾuːɾ/. It means “certainly / of course.” zuh-ROOR — a nuqta z at the front, a long oo, and taps at both ends of that second syllable.

zuh-ROOR — a nuqta z at the front, a long oo, and taps at both ends of that second syllable.

ज़रूर /zə.ɾuːɾ/

zaroor

A weightless opening syllable feeds a long closed one, so the word rises sharply. The two identical taps bracketing the long vowel make it a good test of whether you are producing genuine flicks rather than sustained English r's.

Listen: ज़रूर

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Sound it out

za ज़ with its nuqta buzzes like the z of "zoo"; the schwa after it is barely there.

roor Two flicks of the tongue tip with a long ऊ between them. Both taps are brief, so the vowel dominates and stays uncoloured.

Hear it in a sentence

ज़रूर, कोई बात नहीं!

Zaroor, koee baat naheeṁ!

Sure, no problem!

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"Zaroor, koee baat naheeṁ!" pairs the emphatic adverb with a fixed idiom meaning "no problem," and koee has two vowels in hiatus with nothing between them. Naheeṁ then supplies the nasalized vowel that closes the reply.

Where English speakers slip

Both r's are single contacts, but an American rhotic on either side of the oo turns the second syllable into a continuous hum — the most audible way to sound foreign here. Reading ज़ as j is the other habit, and it obscures the word's Persian origin.