Hindi · Pronunciation Guide

How do you pronounce "टिकट" in Hindi?

Q: How do you pronounce टिकट in Hindi?

टिकट is pronounced with the stress described below. In IPA it is written /ʈɪ.kəʈ/. It means “ticket.” ṬI-kuṭ — both t sounds are retroflex, with the tongue tip curled back, and both vowels are short.

ṬI-kuṭ — both t sounds are retroflex, with the tongue tip curled back, and both vowels are short.

टिकट /ʈɪ.kəʈ/

ṭikaṭ

What slows this word is not vowel length — there is none — but the two retroflex closures, which take time to set up. That gives it a deliberate feel out of proportion to its shortness.

Listen: टिकट

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Sound it out

ṭi ट is retroflex: curl the tongue tip up and back so it strikes behind the ridge, then a short lax इ.

kaṭ A dry velar stop, a bare schwa, and a second retroflex ट closing the word — the tongue curls back again for it.

Hear it in a sentence

मैंने कॉन्सर्ट का टिकट खरीदा।

Maiṁne konsarṭ kaa ṭikaṭ khareedaa.

I bought the ticket for the concert.

Listen: मैंने कॉन्सर्ट का टिकट खरीदा।

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"Maiṁne konsarṭ kaa ṭikaṭ khareedaa" takes the ergative maiṁne with the perfective khareedaa, and konsarṭ ends in a third retroflex ट. So the sentence asks for the curled-tongue position three separate times.

Where English speakers slip

Two alveolar t's and an aspirated first one arrive straight from the English original, but Hindi has made both retroflex and neither aspirated. Curl the tongue tip well back for each, and keep the k in the middle free of the puff English adds.