Lesson 4 - Learn Hindi vowels part 3
Lesson 4
In the previous lesson you saw vowel signs for उ(u) and (ऊ)oo.
So some words to practise with these letters and vowel signs.
कुमार - kumaar - (a name/ sometimes means son)
राम कुमार - Raam Kumaar is a name which also means Raam's son(Like Johnson).
ऊन - un is wool.
ऊँची - oonchi is high/upper etc
The half circle with a dot on top of a letter denotes nasalization and it adds the n/m sound.
It is called chandra(moon) bindu.
सूरत - soorat - look
मूरत - moorat - clay figure
खूबसूरत - khoobsoorat - beautiful/handsome
स्कूल - scool - school (note when two consonants come together the shape of the first
consonant changes)
साप - saap - snake
खून - khoon - blood
Note
त - ta
ख - kha - aspirated ka
स - sa