Help me to LEARN HINDI......

[agantuk]

Good Morning- Good morning.

Good night - Good night.

Sleep well - Achche se sojao.

Sweet dreams - Sweet dreams.

Had your breakfast/lunch/dinner? - Subah ka khana/Dopahar ka khana/Rat ka khana Lunch kha lia?

How was the day? - Din kaisa raha?

This just about sums up the state of Indian languages today.

@raj, honestly, these phrases that you mentioned, are hard to listen to in Hindi, even in towns. I don't remember hearing anyone say suprabhat (good morning) or shubh raatri (except Amitabh Bachchan on KBC)

Again, the breakfast / lunch / dinner thing is usually time sensitive - that is you usually ask that around that time. In that case a simple kha liya? (have you eaten) does the job. If however you are doing an end of day summary/ enquiry you can just use the English words rather than their Hindi siblings. The latter would actually cost confusion. For instance, if you want to tell someone 'go sleep in the bedroom', one doesn't use 'shayan kaksh mein jaake so jao'. Pointless really

 

[mhsabir]

I remember a joke in a serial wherein a lyricist is called to write a Tamil song, at the end of reading one aloud , the producer & director say they cannot accept it - as not a single word is either in non-Tamil or non-understandable ..as both are a must for a Tamil song (i.e English/Other languages and/or random mumblings)

 

[raj2007]

For breakfast - "Nashta Kar Liya" can be used (It is sometimes also used for Snack or "Evening Tiffin" as we use it down here)
If someone asks me the same what would be my reply to it?

 

[cst1992]

Haan for yes, naa for no, and abhi nahi for not yet, kab ka for already

 

[raj2007]

ek gaon mein ek kisaan raghu thathaek gaon mein ek kisan rehta dhaWhich one is correct? Whats the meaning of it?

 

[Sai]

ek gaon mein ek kisan rehta tha
A farmer was living in a village?

 

[Deleted member 13033]

U nd MG both trying to impress their GF and wife respectively by learning Hindi just remember this: Water = PaniLunch/dinner: Khanna ( one word for both )Underwear = katcha or even chaddi works and learn vegetable names in Hindi Tomato: TamatarLemon: Nimbu Bitter melon: KarelaCauliflower: gobi capcicum: Shimla Mirch have fun

 

[teftar]

ek gaon mein ek kisaan raghu thatha - LOL
(Tamil movie buffs will understand what I am referring to) - No offense Raj


Classic:iconrofl:

 

[mhsabir]

ek gaon mein ek kisaan raghu thatha
ek gaon mein ek kisan rehta dha

ek gaon mein ek kisan rehta tha --- This would be correct
There was a farmer who lived in a village -- This would be the ideal translation
In One Village one farmer lived - This would be a crude literal translation

The guy repeating in the movie would say --- "In One Village one farmer Raghu thatha"

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The word "lived" - "Rehta tha" in the crude translation was replaced by "Raghu Thatha"

"Rehta tha" = lived ; Rehta = live , tha = gives the past tense indication; Hence Rehta Tha = lived

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@agantuk/raj - Its the same as is happening in Tamil or any other languages.. No one really speaks the pure language nowadays...

 

[agantuk]

ek gaon mein ek kisaan raghu thatha

This really means nothing.

ek gaon mein ek kisan rehta dha


This one is correct, though it is tha [as in think]. I believe this confusion is because the interchangeable usage of T sounds and D sounds in Tamil, when transliterated into English.

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Lunch/dinner: Khanna ( one word for both )


Khanna nahi bhai, khaana Else, next time they meet a Khanna, they would go, oh so your name has FOOD in it? :O

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Bitter melon: Karela


:annoyed: Bitter gourd