Word
बैडमिंटन बढ़िया है।
Meaning
Badminton is great.
Part of speech
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Pronunciation
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Questions & Answers about बैडमिंटन बढ़िया है।
How do I pronounce बैडमिंटन बढ़िया है?
A learner-friendly pronunciation is:
baidminton badhiya hai
A more careful transliteration is:
baiḍmiṇṭan baṛhiyā hai
A few notes:
- बै sounds roughly like bai in bike, but shorter.
- ट and ड are retroflex sounds in Hindi, made with the tongue curled back a bit.
- बढ़िया is often heard roughly like badhiya.
- है is the common present-tense word for is/am/are.
Is बैडमिंटन originally a Hindi word?
No. बैडमिंटन is a borrowing from English badminton.
Hindi often writes English loanwords in Devanagari script, so the word looks Hindi on the page, but it is still basically the same sport name.
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