hindi beginners course - lesson 3
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Lesson 3: Pronouns.
First, a basic table of the Hindi personal pronouns. Then, I'll give
some explanation.
SINGULAR PLURAL
( ) Hindi English ( ) Hindi English
(main, mai~)I
(ham)We
(tu)You (intimate)
(aap)You
(tum)You
(ve)They/These
/
(voh/vah) (yeh)He/She/It/That
(ye)They/Those
(tu) is used only for very close person, e.g. your
girlfriend/boyfriend. Then (tum) is probably the most used word for
"you" (sg) in Hindi. You can say that to everybody unless you want to
be polite, if so you can use the word "aap" ( ). NB. When using
"aap" ( ) or "tum" ( ) you have to conjugate the verb for plural,
since they're actually the plural form of "you". Well, you don't know
how to conjugate at this point, but do remember that rule! When
meeting for the first time and when politeness is needed better use
'aap' for 'you'!
Now let's have a look at some demonstrative pronouns:
= This ( yeh / yah )
= That ( voh / vah )
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= These ( ye )
= Those ( ve )
Now for the possesive pronouns:SINGULAR PLURAL
( ) Hindi English ( ) Hindi English
(mera)My
(hamara)Our
(tera - /tu/)
Your
(aapka)
Your
(tumhara -
/tum/)
Your
(unka)Their
(uska)His
I think one can build many sentences with so many pronouns. So,
let's say something in hindi at last! ;-)
= is ( hai /hae/ )
Peter = My name is Peter. ( Mera naam Peter hai.
(naam) means "name" ).
NB: The verb in Hindi is placed always at the end of the sentence.
That's a feature which many asian languages share as well. So, Hindi
is an SOV language (i.e Subject-Object-Verb). In our case, we don't
say "My name is Peter", but "My name Peter is". That's the proper
word order in Hindi. More examples:
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Peter . = His name is Peter. (Uska naam Peter
hai.)
. = This is water. ( Yah pani hai. )
. = This is a house. (Yeh ghar hai. )That's enough material for the lesson I think. Next lesson will be
about genders and verbs.
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