Questions & Answers about चाय गरम है।
A good rough pronunciation is chaay garam hai.
More specifically:
- चाय sounds like chai/chaay
- गरम sounds roughly like guh-rum
- है is often written hai in transliteration, but in actual speech it is usually closer to heh or hae than English high
If you want a simple learner-friendly version, say:
chaay guh-rum heh
है is the Hindi word functioning like English is in this sentence.
So:
- चाय = tea
- गरम = hot
- है = is
Hindi often puts है at the end of this kind of sentence.
Because this sentence means Tea is hot, not hot tea.
In Hindi:
- गरम चाय = hot tea
- adjective + noun
- चाय गरम है = the tea is hot
- noun + adjective + is