Archive for 'Hindi Language'
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…
Goodbye, 2013! Posted by Nitin Kumar on Dec 31, 2013
First of all, I would like to wish all of our members a very happy and prosperous new year 2014! In Hindi, we says आप सभी को नव वर्ष २०१४ के उपलक्ष पर बहुत-बहुत हार्दिक शुभकामनाएं। – Aap sabhi ko nav varsh 2014 ke uplaksh par hardik shubhkamanayein! in Hindi. I would like to thanks our…
Top 5 Most Loved Hindi Songs of All Time Posted by Nitin Kumar on Dec 31, 2013
Many Indians are movie (चलचित्र – Chalchitr) addicts and why not, the movies offer them a complete package of a story (कथा – Khatha), lot of songs and dance numbers (musicals) and take them out of their stressful (तनावपूर्ण – Tanavpurn) and busy life. These ingredients are used since the beginning (प्रारंभ – Prarambh) of…
Vocabulary in Hindi – Geography Posted by Nitin Kumar on Dec 30, 2013
In this post, let me show you basic vocabulary related to geography in Hindi. Geography is called भूगोल (Bhugol) in Hindi. The following list (सूची – Suchi) contain Hindi vocabulary (शब्दावली – Shabdaavali) related to geography. English words and their translations (अनुवाद – Anuvaad) into Hindi (in Devanagari script) are given along with their pronunciations…