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Improve Your Hindi Vocabulary: Prefixes, Part 2 Posted by Rachael on Sep 30, 2018
If you’re just catching up with this blog series on prefixes, take a moment to review my first blog in the series here. Learning prefixes, or particles that appear at the beginning of a word to change its meaning slightly, can be enormously helpful if you are trying to expand your vocabulary in Hindi. Rather…
Improve Your Hindi Vocabulary: Prefixes, Part 1 Posted by Rachael on Sep 30, 2018
If you’d like to improve your Hindi vocabulary, one of the best ways to do so is to study prefixes. Like many languages, English included, Hindi contains a wide variety of prefixes, even more so because it is a highly mixed language (or, खिचड़ी भाषा/khichdi baashaa) with a lexicon that derives from numerous other languages…
Prefixes Posted by Nitya on Oct 30, 2017
Prefixes! Those glorious little words that can change the meaning of a word in an instant. English has a rich trove of prefixes that are sourced from languages including Greek and Latin. Hindi is no different, and boasts its own store of prefixes, many of which are borrowed from languages like Urdu. To provide an…
Sanskrit Prefixes in Hindi Posted by Nitin Kumar on Sep 24, 2012
Prefix (उपसर्ग – Upsarg) is a word that comes before the stem of a word, here a Hindi word. They are used to alter the meaning of a word. Study of prefixes is important as it can help us to determine the meaning of a given word. In Hindi, there are various types of suffixes which…
Ten Important Prefixes in Hindi Posted by Nitin Kumar on Jul 11, 2012
In Hindi, there are lot of prefixes which can give you some valuable clues about their meaning. Prefix is called उपसर्ग (Upsarg) in Hindi. In this post, I am going to cover ten important prefixes which can be found in numerous Hindi words. Let’s have a look with some of the examples. 1. अ (A) means…
Prefixes – II Posted by Nitin Kumar on Feb 23, 2012
In Hindi, there are several groups under which prefixes could be defined. As you already know, there are several loan words in Hindi. These loan words could be from Persian, Arabic, English and etc. Let me show you some of the prefixes with some examples. I have selected some prefixes that make words in Hindi…
Prefixes in Hindi Posted by Nitin Kumar on Apr 26, 2011
Prefix (उपसर्ग) is a word that comes before the stem of a word, here a Hindi word. They are used to alter the meaning of a word. Study of prefixes is important as it can help us to determine the meaning of a given word. Let us explore the topic of prefix in more detail…