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Hindi · Pronunciation Guide
How do you pronounce "ज़्यादा" in Hindi?
ZYAA-daa — start with a z and glide straight into y, no vowel between them, and the d is dental.
zyaadaa
Two heavy syllables, both with long vowels, giving a steady two-beat word. The consonant cluster at the front adds no extra syllable, so anyone hearing three beats is inserting a vowel that should not be there.
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Hear it in a sentence
मुझे ज़्यादा समय चाहिए।
Mujhe zyaadaa samay chaahiye.
I need more time.
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"Mujhe zyaadaa samay chaahiye" pairs the quantifier with samay, which is masculine and stays unmarked, and the whole thing runs on the dative-plus-chaahiye pattern. Samay ends in a य glide, so the phrase has two य sounds in close succession — one in a cluster, one as a coda.
Where English speakers slip
The predictable repair is inserting a vowel: "zi-yaa-daa" or "jyaa-daa." Both are wrong in different ways — the first adds a syllable, the second ignores the nuqta and substitutes j. Practise by saying "is your" quickly and isolating the zy, then attach the long aa.