Archive for January, 2014
Top 20 Word Pairs in Hindi Posted by Nitin Kumar on Jan 31, 2014
In Hindi, there are some words that goes in pair. These word pair can be formed using same word, two different words, antonyms, meaningful & meaningless and two meaningless words. We, native Hindi speakers, use these words pair in our daily conversations all the time, so let me tell you some of the most important word…
Top 10 Hindi Idioms Posted by Nitin Kumar on Jan 30, 2014
There are several Hindi idioms (plural. मुहावरे – Muhavare), which are used in daily conversation by native Hindi speakers. Some idioms are used more often than the others and can be very important for every Hindi learner. I have compiled these Hindi idioms in a list along with their usage, transliteration and translation in English…
Top Questions on Travel Posted by Nitin Kumar on Jan 29, 2014
There are some of the questions that people ask you, while you are traveling a foreign land. Also, there are some question that you find asking yourself, while traveling. Whichever the case may be, I will help you out at least in Hindi. I have compiled some of the top questions in this post with…
Lost in Transliteration Posted by Nitin Kumar on Jan 28, 2014
Lost in translation can be bad and let me tell you, that as a language learner, being lost in transliteration can be equally bad. But many of you might be wondering, what is this transliteration anyway? And as a Hindi learner, how are you affected by it? Transliteration is the process (प्रक्रिया – Prakriya) of…
Common Postpositions in Hindi Posted by Nitin Kumar on Jan 27, 2014
As you know the prepositions are important part of language, today I will show you some of the common prepositions in Hindi. In Hindi, the prepositions comes after the noun or pronouns so they are also known as postposition. As you already know from my previous post on postpositions in Hindi that there are 7…
Adverb of Quantity Posted by Nitin Kumar on Jan 26, 2014
In Hindi, there are three types of adverbs as I have mentioned in my post on Adverbs in Hindi. Out of these 3 adverbs, in this post I will revisit the adverbs of quantity in Hindi with some more examples. As we know that the words which give the measure (quantity) of action are called…
Auxiliary Verb – रहना (rahna) Posted by Nitin Kumar on Jan 15, 2014
Today I will discuss a very important auxiliary verb रहना (rahna) which means ‘to live’ or ‘to stay’ in English. An auxiliary verb is a verb that is used to support the main verb in the clause by adding mood, tense, number etc to give it a grammatical meaning. In Hindi, the auxiliary verbs are…