Basic Hindi | Lesson 9 | Demonstratives and their usage
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Namastē! Lesson 9 | Basic Hindi
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Lesson object
1 Demonstratives
2 Usage of demonstratives
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Revision : Basic interrogatives
English Hindi
How much/many? Kitnā / kitnē?
How? Kaisē?
What? Kyā?
When? Kab?
Where? Kahān?
Who? Kaun?
Which? Kaunsa?
Why? Kyon?
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Revision : Conversation!
English Hindi
Which language do you
speak? Āp kaunsi bhāṣā bōltay hō?
I speak Spanish/Hindi Maiṁ Spanish/Hindi bōltī/bōltā hooṁ
Why are you angry? Āp nārāj kyon ho?
I am angry because I stole
my money
Maiṁ nārāj hooṁ kyōṅki mērē paisey
gumā ho gayē
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Lesson object
1 Demonstratives
2 Usage of demonstratives
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Today's conversation!
Today we will learn a new Sentence Structur
This is Mark
That is Lisa
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Demonstratives
Demonstratives are words relying on an external frame of reference(they are not
things said in the sentence itself) that indicate what entity is a
speaker referring to
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Demonstratives
For example,
'That car' answers the question, 'Which car'?
(car being the external frame of reference here)
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Demonstratives
Unlike English, in Hindi demonstratives always come before the object subject
This
Yaha
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Demonstratives
Unlike English, in Hindi demonstratives always come before the object subject
That
Vaha
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Demonstratives
Demonstratives point to the entity a speaker is referring to
This = Yaha
That = Vaha
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Lesson object
1 Demonstratives
2 Usage of demonstratives
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Demonstratives - example
Let's take an example: Say you’re at a party and Lisa is standing next to
you while Mark is on the dance floor, away from you
To introduce them you would say:
This is Lisa = Yaha Lisā hai That is Mark = Vaha Mārk hai
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Demonstratives - example
This is Lisa
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Demonstratives - example
This is Lisa
Yaha is Lisā
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Demonstratives - example
Sentence StructureDemonstrative | Subject | 'To-be' verb
This is Lisa
Yaha Lisā hai
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Demonstratives - example
That is Mark
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Demonstratives - example
That is Mark
Vaha hai Mārk
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Demonstratives - example
Sentence StructureDemonstrative | Subject | 'To-be' verb
That is Mark
Vaha Mārk hai
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Grammar tip
This (Yaha) is used to indicate objects / people in close proximity
That (Vaha) is used to indicate objects / people who are not around
(not present / close-by)
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Demonstratives - example
How many fruits?
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Demonstratives - example
How many fruits
kitnē phal
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Demonstratives - example
Kitnē is used as 'fruits' is plural
How many fruits?
Kitnē phal?
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Grammar tip
Kitnē is used as 'fruits' is plural
The actual question being asked here is ‘how many fruits are these / those?’ thus the
answer becomes 'Yaha Kitnē phal haiṁ?'
'These' and 'those ' (pronouns) also acts as a demonstrative
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Demonstratives - example
Question structureDemonstrative | Interrogation | Suject |
'To-be' verb
How many fruits(are these)?
Yaha kitnē phal haiṁ?
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Let's see if you remember…
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Exercise : Pick the right option
'How many fruits' translates to___
1
Yaha Lisā hai
2
Kitnē phal
3
Yaha kitnē phal haiṁ
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Solution
'How many fruits' translates to___
1
Yaha Lisā hai
2
Kitnē phal
3
Yaha kitnē phal haiṁ
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Recall what the other options translate as!
English Hindi
This is Lisa Yaha Lisā hai
How many fruits are these Yaha Kitnē phal haiṁ
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Revision : Demonstratives
English Hindi
This Yaha
That Vaha
These Yaha
Those Vaha
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Revision : Today's conversation!
English Hindi
This is Lisa Yaha Lisā hai
That is Mark Vaha Mārk hai
How many fruits? Kitnē phal?
How many fruits(are these)? Yaha Kitnē phal haiṁ?
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Culture leaf
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Culture leaf - Games in India
Field Hockey is the national game on India
A wide variety of sports is played throughout the
country These include kabbadi, kho kho, pehlwani,
and gilli-danda
British rule brought many popular sports in India
including football, rugby, cricket, golf, tennis, squash,
Hockey, boxing, snooker, and billiards
Indians are crazy about cricket
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Culture leaf - Games in India
India is the birthplace of chess
The original word for 'chess' is
chaturanga (Sanskrit) meaning
'four members of an army'
Which were mostly likely
elephants, horses, chariots, and
foot soldiers
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What's next?
In the next lesson we will lean how to use demonstratives along with interrogations!
We will answer questions such as ‘What is this?' 'When did this happen?'
and many more!
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Credits
Content
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Culture leaf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sport_in_India
Image
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:ChessSet.jpg
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Dhan'yavād! See you at the Alley!
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