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Re: Adjectives

Simona — Tue, 25 Jan 2022 22:38:21 -0000

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Re: Postpositions

Anuradha Gupta — Sun, 12 Dec 2021 21:55:12 -0000

Yes, it is, "Main tum"se" pyaar karta hoon" because it's like saying- "I am in love "with" you"
se= 1) from 2) with
in this context, the word "se" means "with"
we also say, "tum kis se likhte ho?" = what do you write with?
"main pen se likhti hoon" = i write with a pen.

Re: Vocabulary

Jewel — Sat, 23 Oct 2021 21:14:43 -0000

This is great! Any chance you have this in an Anki deck or a spreadsheet?

Re: Participle + जाना

Margaret Moore — Fri, 15 Oct 2021 21:22:07 -0000

hi, dear friends. here are a few examples：

मैं काम पर जाती हूँ।
क्या आप हर दिन काम पर जाते हैं?
चलो काम पर
काम पर आना
काम पर जाना

who can explain to me why there is पर between जाना and काम, does काम act as the object of जाना？why all these examples use पर/पे here, can we directly say काम जाना? thanks a lot.

Re: Contact

Stephen — Fri, 08 Oct 2021 18:42:49 -0000

Hey David. Long time. Thought I'd continue Hindi again, especially during these lockdowns.

Are you still here in 2021?

Re: Gender

Vishnu Kayarat — Fri, 01 Oct 2021 09:11:57 -0000

Hi,
Nice discussion that has been going on below. So based on the rule, 'avashyakata' is supposed to be feminine.
How about 'zarurat'? And other words that end with '-at'? Like 'insaniyat'

Re: Gender

Kallzz — Mon, 31 May 2021 00:56:03 -0000

Which is correct?
Tera hone lagi hoon or
Teri hone lagi hoon

Re: About

Peter Hook — Sat, 29 May 2021 14:01:17 -0000

I believe the normal way of expressing the agent of the invariable
masculine singular oblique perfect participle used in this construction
is with an oblique form of the possessive (rather than with a
से-phrase): हिंदी सम्पर्क भाषा अपने बलबूते पर बनी है। किसी के बनाए नहीं बनी। (See note #2.) Furthermore, "this verb has several idiomatic uses..." is true but the operative factor is not the verb बनना but the construction in which it sits. Many other verb pairs can be inserted into it: इश्क-मुश्क छिपाए नहीं छिपता; किसी के रोके नहीं रुका सांड; युवा = वायु जो किसी के बांधे नहीं बंधता; etc.
(Dear David, Sorry for this roundabout way of contacting you. I do not belong to Disqus and do not want to belong.)

Re: Reduplicated Conjunctive Participles

Derek Etherington — Fri, 28 May 2021 16:31:43 -0000

Why is it referred to as 'reduplicated' as opposed to 'duplicated' ?

Re: Oblique Participle Complements

aidan — Tue, 18 May 2021 14:07:29 -0000

All the examples you gave are in the masculine. If I wanted to say "I saw a cow swimming", would I say "मैंने गाय तैरती हुई देखी"? And what about "मैंने आटा मेज़ पर पड़ा हुआ देखा", for "I saw the flour strewn on the table"?

Re: चुकना

Olivier Massicot — Sat, 17 Apr 2021 13:09:02 -0000

If "चुकाना" means to repay (a debt), to say "I'm done repaying my debts", would you say "में अपना कर्ज़ चुका चुका हूँ"?

Re: Causative Verbs

Simon — Sat, 17 Apr 2021 11:16:10 -0000

Hello, I'm reading the 18th lesson of Complete Hindi by Rupert Snell and I
don't understand the use of causative in perfective participle form +
जाना .

सुहास : प्रताप, टैक्सीवाले को कहलवा दो कि वह चला जाए ।
सुरेश : हाँ, टैक्सी को तो बाद में वपास बुलवाया जा साकता है ।

and further :

मेरे
लन्दन में रहते समय,जो भारतीय मूल के परिवार वहाँ बस गए हैं,वे मुझसे
अपने बच्चों को कथक सिखवाते थे । अब तो मुझे भारत में ही यही काम करने के
लिए बुलवाया गया है ।

the translation given is :

Suresh : Yes, the taxi can be called back later.

And

Now I've been called to do the same work in India.

I don't doubt the translation but I don't understand:

Are these two examples causatives in the passive form (perfective participle + जाना ) ???

What are their subjects?

What would a literal translation be like ?

Could you give me some more examples of this contruction with a translation the more literal possible ?

I understand the causative ( वे मुझसे अपने बच्चों को कथक सिखवाते थे ) but I can't see the meaning of causative +jana...

Re: Ergativity

Michele Gorro Gorini — Thu, 01 Apr 2021 17:08:27 -0000

What happens in ज़िंदगी में है तू जो आया? We know from the context (song https://lyricstranslate.com... ) this tū is a woman, and āyā would seem to have it as subject. Does "jo" act as the blocking postposition? I mean, ānā is intransitive so it shouldn't be a ne-verb and should agree with its subject tū. Or can ānā be transitive?

Re: Subjunctive Mood

Michele Gorro Gorini — Thu, 01 Apr 2021 08:01:07 -0000

In तेरे इश्क़ की बारिश में (https://lyricstranslate.com..., in the line मैं समझूँ तेरे, समझ तू मेरे, is that an optative subjunctive? Or is it expressing ignorance?

Re: Some Other Types of Compound Verbs

Радим Навьян — Fri, 26 Feb 2021 11:50:18 -0000

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Re: Contact

Dennis — Thu, 04 Feb 2021 18:57:20 -0000

This website is soo soo useful! It's helping me so much in learning Hindi!
Are there plans to complete the still to be done webpages as of now?
Again thank you so much?

Re: Past Perfective

Navin Chotia — Wed, 27 Jan 2021 00:24:13 -0000

The postposition to को, which is optional to say is forcing the verb to go oblique - बात करने. You can also say - वह मुझसे बात करने को आया

Re: Interrogative Pronouns

hindilanguage.info — Thu, 19 Nov 2020 11:59:51 -0000

Hi, Joan!

You're right, the position of the interrogative pronoun comes after the subject. This syntax indicates a certain type of question. If "kya" comes in a different position, the sentence means something quite different, e.g. "uska naam kya hai" (what is his/her name?) versus "kya uska naam hai" (Does he/she have a name?) - and odd sentence, perhaps. The "kya" at the beginning or end of a sentence is almost like punctuation. It is often omitted since context, usage, and intonation make it clear that a question is being asked, e.g. "chot lagi?" - "did you get hurt" for "kya tumhein chot lagi?", etc.

Re: Interrogative Pronouns

Joan — Mon, 16 Nov 2020 18:16:36 -0000

Hi David,
Thanks to the examples I guess that the position of the interrogative pronoun is after the subject, but is there any rule?

Thanks

Re: Transitivity

Justin — Fri, 13 Nov 2020 20:42:43 -0000

Thanks for the detailed and prompt response!

Re: Transitivity

hindilanguage.info — Fri, 13 Nov 2020 10:10:24 -0000

Good question. Yes, there is an important difference between करना and कराना. करना is indeed transitive. कराना is causative. करना means "to do" whereas कराना means something like "to cause to do". For example, consider the difference between "बंद करना" ("to close") and "बंद कराना" ("to have [something] closed"): पुलिस ने दुकान बंद कराई थी - "the police had the shop closed" (or just "the police closed the shop") - the implication being that they didn't perform the act themselves but simply ordered it to happen, etc. उसने दुकान बंद की - "she/he closed the shop" - perhaps the shop owner closed the shop, etc.

Re: Transitivity

Justin — Thu, 12 Nov 2020 21:10:22 -0000

Is there any difference between करना and कराना? Both verbs appears to have identical meanings, but I was under the assumption that करना was already transitive, hence why the verb कराना confuses me if it is supposed to be the transitive form of करना.

Re: Imperative Mood

Another Ami... — Fri, 06 Nov 2020 14:07:13 -0000

Thank you very much for the time you took for all the notes and rules etc!

Re: About

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Re: About

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