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Hindi Lesson 10: Verbs

This lesson is going to focus on vocabulary, because after all, you can know all the grammar but if you don’t know any words, you still can’t say anything. People use verbs all the time, so let’s start here.

Some of the most common verbs are:

होना - hona - to be

करना - karna - to do

बनाना - banana - to make

लेना - lena - to take

देना - dena - to give

आना - aana - to come

जाना - jaana - to go

देखना - dekhna - to see, to look

सुनना - sunna - to hear, to listen

बैठना - baithna - to sit

हँसना - hansna - to laugh (sometimes also to smile)

सोना - sona - to sleep (in some dialects this also means to lie down)

जागना - jaagna - to wake (one’s self)

Now, Hindi has a very common thing called “compound verbs” where you take a noun or adjective and add a verb right after it (most commonly karna) to express doing that thing. The noun or adjective stays the same (you don’t have to worry about any cases or postpositions), while the verb takes the tense markings.

Some common ones are:

काम करना - kaam karna - to work

पढ़ाई करना - padhai karna - to study, to do studies

शुरु करना - shuru karna - to start

बंद करना - band karna - to close, to turn off

तय करना - tay karna - to decide

In the simple present tense it works like this:

मैं काम करती हूँ। main kaam kartee hoon. - I (f) work.

आप पढ़ाई करते हैं। aap padhai karte hain. - you (m, polite) study.

This is an extremely useful structure to know, for one reason: 90% of loan words from English are used as compound verbs with karna. Hindi speakers use a lot of English in their vocabulary, so if you don’t know the word for something, you can stick ANY English word into this structure and chances are very good you’ll be understood. In fact, you might be right and sound natural!

This doesn’t mean you shouldn’t learn the actual Hindi words for things - you absolutely should, if only for the sake of linguistic preservation but also because many of them are used - but when you’re practicing speaking and want to express yourself? This will take you a long way.

Some commonly used words (and their slightly less common shuddh hindi counterparts) are:

dance karna डैंस करना (नाचना naacna) to dance

count karna कउंट करना (गिनना ginna) to count

cancel karna कैंसेल करना (रद्द करना radd karna) to cancel

choose karna चूज़ करना (चुनना cunna) to choose

Example: हम सब लोग रात भर डैंस करते हैं। hum sab log raat bhar dance karte hain. We all dance all night long.

Bonus words:

सब - sab - all, every

लोग - log - people (only exists in the plural)

रात - raat (f) - night

दिन - din (m) - day

भर - bhar - entire, the whole time

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Indo-European Languages

Since the majority of the languages I am learning are ones from the Indo-European language family, I have listed some words in French, Italian, Russian, Persian and Hindi which are either closely or distantly related to each  other. 

-The words are in the order in which their respective languages appear above in bold; —- means the language doesn’t have a related term-

one, un, un, один [odín], یک [yek], एक [ek]                       two, deux, due, два [dva], دو [do], दो  [do] three, trois, tre, три [tri], سه [se], तीन [tīn]                 four, quatre, quattro, четыре [četýre], چهار [chahâr], चार [chār]                 five, cinq, cinque, пять [pyat’], پنج [panj], पाँच [pãnch]                   six, six, sei, шесть [šest’], شش [shesh], छः [chhah]                  seven, sept, sette, семь [sem’], هفت [haft], सात [sāt] eight, huit, otto, восемь [vósem’], هشت [hasht], आठ [āṭh]  nine, neuf, nove, девять [dévyat’], نه [noh], नौ [nau] ten, dix, dieci, десять [désyat’], ده [dah], दस [das] one hundred, cent, cento, сто  [sto], صد [sad], सौ [sau] mother, mère, madre, мать [mat’], مادر [mâdar], माता [mātā] father, père, padre, —-, پدر [pedar], पिता [pitā] brother, frère, fratello, брат [brat], برادر [barâdar], भाई [bhāī] sister, sœur, sorella, сестра [sestrá], خواهر [khwâhar], —-    young, jeune, giovane, юный [yúnyy], جوان [javân], युवा [yūva] eye, œil, occhio, очки [očkí] (glasses), —–, आँख [ãnkh] tongue, langue, lingua, язык [yazýk], زبان [zabân], जीभ  [jībh] heart, cœur, cuore, сердце [sérdce], —-, हृदय  [hrday]  knee, genou, ginocchio, —-, زانو [zânu], घुटना [ghuṭnā] bone, os, osso, кость [kost’], استخوان [ostokhwân], अस्थि [asthi] foot, pied, piede, пешкoм [péškom] (on foot), پا  [pâ], पैर [pair] tooth, dent, dente, десна [desná] (gums), دندان [dandân], दंत [dãnt] bear, ours, orso, —-, خرس [khers], रीछ [rīchh] wolf, loup, lupo, волк [volk], گرگ [gorg], वृक [vrk] star, étoile, stella, звезда [zvezdá], ستاره [setâre], तारा [tārā] night, nuit, notte, ночь [noč’], —-, —-    sun, sol, sole, солнце [sólnce], خور [khûr] (east), सूरज [sūraj]

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A fan spotted Wu Yifan at Beijing FU WAI HOSPITAL today. He was at the cardiologist.

Fu Wai Hospital is the largest hospital specialized in treatment, prevention and research in cardiovascular diseases.

The doctor said why he still performing with his heart condition like that…

Take care dear..

Update:  “140528 Wu Yi Fan wasn’t alone at the hospital, he was with his mother (cr: Xizi希子) via.Becca

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