Woe betide in Hindi
Meaning, Devanagari spelling and pronunciation
The meaning of “woe betide” in Hindi is मुश्किल में पड़ सकता है, pronounced mushkil men paDa sakata hai — it is a noun. Copy the Devanagari word above, hear how it is pronounced, and use it anywhere. To type words like this yourself, try our Hindi typing tool, or explore more words in the vocabulary sets.
Used to warn someone that trouble will occur if that person does something: bad things will happen to.
From Early Modern English woe (“great sadness or distress; calamity, trouble”) + betide (“to happen to, befall”), formerly used to decry a person’s actions. Grammatically, the verb is in the subjunctive mood.
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