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With औरत you don't pronounce the 'a' in त, but with औरतें you have an /e/ instead of the 'a' so you have to remove the previous 'a' in र.
When you have vowel-consonant-"a"-consonant the "a" tends to be dropped. That's why पिछले sounds more like "pichlē" and not "pichalē", लड़की like "larhkī", and so on.
I'm slightly confused about the pronunciation of the last letter, can someone clarify, please?
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/aurateṅ/ Can you be more specific about the question you have? It's /e/ with nasalization added.
They're synonyms. They both mean the same thing. Duolingo is just teaching you "aurten" first
Actually aurat and aurten come from the arabic words for female genitals, hence the traditional way to refer to women in Hindi is highly offensive.
This is why google says to use Mahila.
You can also use Nari and Shri.
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Speaking of Arabic, is Hindi also a Semitic language or has it had some influence thereof?
Hindi is an Indo-European language, same as English, Farsi, etc. Hindi has a lot of influence from Persian, which itself has a lot of influence from Arabic, so in the case of ऑरत it came to Hindi from Arabic via Farsi.
Other examples of Arabic loanwords via Farsi include शुक्रिया ("thank you") and आदमी. (Some may argue that शुक्रिया is purely Urdu but I learned it in Hindi class, so I dunno.)
