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नमस्ते friends, here are a few examples： मैं काम पर जाती हूँ। क्या आप हर दिन काम पर जाते हैं? चलो काम पर काम पर आना काम पर जाना who can explain to me why there is पर between जाना and काम, does काम act as the object of जाना？why all these examples use पर/पे here, can we directly say काम जाना...

Hi all, I'm having trouble wrapping my head around these two phrases. I've found this thread but I wanted to expand on this if possible: My understanding is that "vaise to" provides some sense of unrelated information (like English "by the way" or "for what it's worth"). Ex.: (examples made up...

hi everyone, when learning Hindi, I found some words can be repeted, for example कौन-कौन, क्या-क्या, धीरे-धीरे, जल्दी-जल्दी ... some pronoun, adjective, and adverb can be repeted. I want to know whether I can repeted conjunction like और, or postposition words like ने, "... और और ..." "... ने...

Friends, In Urudu, jam3, with a final 'ain like this جَمْع results in Hindi जमा jamaa. When used as an adjective, apparently it can mean something like "gathered, assembled, accumulated, massed, etc.". If one goes by the Urdu spelling, that word ends with a consonant and the adjective is...

Dear Foreros, I was wondering whether a pregnant woman's water breaking is something that lends itself well to the languages above. At least it ought to. Urdu/Hindi and I'm sure it's the case for Persian too are powerfully descriptive when it comes to matters pertaining to explosions, release...

Dear Foreros, I am sure alot of you would have been affected by the recent blackout of all Facebook owned social media sites and apps. But how would you refer to such widespread outages in your native languages? I wasn't able to find much on any official terms in Urdu but this leaves plenty of...

Dear Foreros, In real life is a common phrase used in the English language pertaining to having done something in reality rather than virtually or to experience it. It's used mostly in contrast to the virtual world. I have never spoken/met to him in real life and so on and so forth. An online...

Dear Foreros, This is something I have long wondered, whilst in English thanksgiving isn't purely restricted to religious pursuits i.e. thanking God or a deity, is that so when using the term in Urdu/Hindi? Can a gift of gratitude be referred to as a shukraana or is that purely for charitable...

Friends, On occasion of discussing the uses of apnaa in some other thread, a member who is a native speaker and has an understanding of grammar and comparative linguistics, made a surprising (for me) assertion. The phrase was: " yah apnii samajh meN nahiiN aa rahii hai", and the thing...

For example: "After the government arrested the politician, the people revolted" I am aware of the "kar" participle however I have only seen it used when there has been one agent. In this sentence there are two agents (the government in the first half, and the people in the second)

Dear Foreros, Whenever there is a leak the first word that comes to mind is Tapaknaa. However, I'm a tad unsure about its usage and I'll explan why. It is clear that when something trickles Tapaknaa is used as in ras Tapaknaa or buuNd Tapaknaa. However, let's suppose an air-conditioner is...

I'm having trouble with the following sentence from the movie Te3n: उसे ढूँढने के चांसेस ना के बराबर हैं use DhoonDhne ke caansez (chances) naa ke baraabar haiN (Movie Subtitles: ) It's almost impossible to find him What does "naa ke baraabar" here mean?

While the construction "infinitive + honaa" often indicates obligation, I often see it used to mean "to want". For example: (context: getting into a cab) bhai saahib, andherii jaanaa hai - bhai sahib, (I) want to go to Andheri (context: little girl outside with her Mom) mummy, mujhe ghar...

Dear Foreros, The concept of a walk is important in every language and this is particularly poignant in Indo-European languages yet I cannot for the life of me think of a term that encapsulates the concept of a walk. What I mean by this is a walk as a noun not in the act of walking which can be...

Hello-- the quote above blew my mind. I had no idea khelnaa wasn't always treated ergatively in the past tense. I would have always said maiN ne billii ke saath khelaa. Thanks again to all the foreros here who have taught me so much. Judging from the above, it looks like khelnaa only takes ne...

Dear Foreros, I was at a complete loss when attempting to formulate a term for kind words. How would you go about describing the following in the languages above?: "Your kind words have given me great resolve and strength". Your assistance would be much appreciated, and do transliterate where...

Friends, An Indian acquaintance of mine, who is fluent in Hindi but not as his mother tongue, told me that he once he was mocked about his usage of apnaa in the following way: He says he wanted to use the "apnaa slang" in front of a group of friends, by saying this: - maiN aaj apnii nishaa...

Dear Foreros, In the brotherly languages above how would you refer to a condiment that has found its way on tables aplenty? My attempt: Mirch/ii-lahsun Sauce? Chutney would sound rather odd as chutney is a certain type of sauce akin to a relish. Thence why other languages like Arabic resort to...

Friends, The following saying, I believe, means that in times of necessity one has to abase oneself in front of less-than-deserving people. vaqt paRne par gadhe ko baap banaate haiN But sometimes the saying is just vaqt par gadhe ko baap banaate haiN What does paRne add to the translation...

Friends, The following stanza belongs to "Jag Lal Lal Lal", a sufi-pop song from the 2007 Bollywood song "Big Brother". ziNdagii qadam qadam pe detii hai yuuN to dhokaa uskii baat ban jaatii haiN jo na gavaaeN mauqaa [sample youtube: lLJDcy639iI at 1:42] What does "gavaaeN" mean in this...

Sokerde, sokeresa, ne de ne de... This is from a Romani song. I want to ask: 1) What are the meanings of these words in Romani? Something like "how are you?"...? 2) Do these words have meanings or make any sense in Rajasthani or Gujarati languages? How are they translated into these...

Dear Foreros, Whilst it is very clear to me that in Urdu we can idiomatically state that we respect someone I.e. i'zzat/ehteraam karnaa or to keep someone's respect/honour in I'zzat rakhna, with a great level of ease, what I wasn't too sure about was how we'd refer to having or feeling respect...

Dear Foreros, Whilst Urdu most certainly has no shortage for terms to fill such voids the wholesale adoption of English terms is befuddling to say the least. In that light how would one refer to a front cover, the back-cover blurb and the title page? From a brief online search I was able to...

Hello, I would like to know if there is a way to dissect this word, अर्द्ध चंद्राकार, in two parts. In case that is possible, I would like to know what the particle "drakkar"(romanization of the last word) means. Thank you very much. Rainbolight

Friends, I just realized, to my horror, that I don't know how to write the future 1st person of chuunaa (i.e. verbs with a root ending in -uu) My guess is: chu-uun-gaa (first a short u- from the shortened root, then the termination with a full long -uu) How do I write it in script? My...

Dear Foreros, Whilst the term for edible that Urdu has derived from Persian for edible is xurdanii/xwurdanii I.e. خردنی, I wanted to enquire if a similar term existed for liquids worthy of drinking? Noshanii نشنی would appear to hit the spot but I doubt such a word exists. In any case using...

Friends, Which is the correct inflecton of devtaa == "deity"? dir.sing: devtaa obl.sing: devte voc.sing: devte dir.plur: devte obl.plur: devtoN voc.plur: devto --- or is it tatsama? ---- dir.sing: devtaa obl.sing: devtaa voc.sing: devtaa dir.plur: devtaa obl.plur...

Friends, Please, same as I asked before, I would like to know, from the stock of concessive conjunctions I see in grammars, which ones are in use on either register/language. The concessive concept is: "although", "even if", "granted", in sum, "maanaa ki(h)" :) What I get from my Urdu...

Friends, I was browsing the internet looking for examples of these 2 words, when used as illative conjunctions (i.e., expressing the consequence of something said earlier: "so, then, therefore"). Is my impression correct, that islie is more prevalent in Hindi, whereas chunaaNche (being...

Friends, I am trying to say, "Is it tears of embers, what flows from (my) eyes"? My attempt is: aaNsuu haiN ki haiN aNgaare, jo aaNkhoN se behtaa hai? And my wider question is: is the singular masculine behtaa hai correctly used there, lacking a clear or single antecedent? Should I have...

Dear Foreros, Whilst it is clear in that so far as Urdu is concerned be-dil carries far more poetic meaning than its English counterpart in heartless, can be-dil also mean heartless in the sense that it is commonly used in English? In other words how could he/she be so heartless? Does be-dil...

Dear Foreros, One reason behind the wholesale adoption of English terms, in many languages is their knack of being uncumbersome. It is time that other languages take a leaf from its book. In fact if anything Urdu-Hindi used to do exactly that with nifty terms like Hawaa-chakkii for windmill and...

Friends, What is the difference between saadhan and saNsaadhan? Both seem to mean something in the line of "resource, means". For example, if I wanted to say something like: "This is an online resource that helps women" Which one would I use? my attempt: yah anlaain saNsaadhan hai ki(h)...

Dear Foreros, I was wondering whether any terms existed for the above. Now from what I know as far as Urdu is concerned and I would assume the same is the case for Persian both neem-aasteen and neema-aasteen are used for half-sleeve garments. In Persian the terms are uniformly used for...

Friends, The following stanza belongs to the famous song "KANK" or "Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna" jitnii thii xushiyaaN sab kho chukii haiN bas ek Gam hai ki(h) jaataa nahiiN (example Youtube: eSuMSTGTExk at 0:26) My question is: is that usage of ki(h) valid? i.e.: can ki(h) head adjectival...

Friends, When conveying the sense of "being charmed, obsessed, infatuated", the expression is "meN fidaa honaa" (with fidaa invariable) or just "fidaa honaa"? For example, in the folliowing sentences: xudaa jaane ki(h) meN fidaa huuN => that "meN" is actually "maiN" or is part of the...

Dear Foreros, This is something that has always bugged me in that whilst it is clear that Jaalaa is used exclusively to denote cobwebs or a spider web the demarcation between the other two terms is not so clear. Which begs the question are they one in the same with jaalii merely being the...

Dear Forum members, I was keen to ascertain whether Takarnaa or Takkarnaa ٹکرنا can indeed be used in lieu of Takkar khaanaa i.e. to collide or whether the two hold different connotations. Could you say meraa sar us se Takkar gayaa taa in lieu of Takkar khaa gayaa taa? Similarly kyaa aap kaa...

Dear Foreros, There's nothing that South Asians/Middle Easterners seem to love more than a ribbon-cutting ceremony and although I am not certain if the same trend carries on to Persians I am certain they have an indigenous term to match for the occasion. Now ribbon in Urdu translates to feeta...

Dear Foreros, Given that their appears to be an overlap or perhaps its all in my head but how do you differentiate between a child teething I.e. their new set of teeth appearing and for their teeth to come/fall out? One necessitates the arrival of the DaaNt/Dandaan-Parii and the other most...

Dear Foreros, I would be interested to know how you pluralise tea in the languages above. Although chaa'e in Urdu and Hindi is a feminine noun the typical rules of pluralisations do not seem to apply when it comes to the word in that I am yet to ever come across chaa'eiN. Thence how would you...

Dear Foreros, This is a matter which always confounds me in that whilst there are several ways to say inhale, or breathe in how is one supposed to breathe out in Urdu. For instance Inhale can be termed saaNs lenaa, dam lenaa, even potentially tanaffus karnaa/jaarii rakhnaa but why does every...

Dear Foreros, I was wondering how the concept above which people of the region are definetely not strangers to is referred to in the brotherly languages above. Would BachchoN kii/ke (liye) Hiraasatii jang or baraa'e bachche ... make sense and if not what will? Is Hiraasat a term limited to...

Dear Foreros, I was wondering how you would refer to non-iron garments I.e. one that do not need to iron as opposed to unironed/non-ironed ones. For instance be-istrii for urdu-phones imparts the impression of being unironed and thereby is not suitable here perhaps. Or is it and would it be...

Dear Foreros, I had a quick query with regard to the gender of DaaRh the word for molars and wisdom teeth in Urdu and its subsequent accepted plural form. Most dictionaries suggest that daaRh is feminine, wouldn't that in turn mean that wisdom tooth be a'ql daaRh and teeth be a'qal daaRheiN? If...

Friends, I understand that [hote-hote] + [bachnaa] is used to express events that almost happened (but were avoided). Calamities from which one was spared, etc. However, I am struggling understanding the exact meaning of bachnaa. Is it transitive or intransitive? It means "to be avoided" or "to...

Friends, My understanding is that, a past participle expresses the ramifications of a previous action on the narration's main action And a present participle, also expresses an influence on the main action, but that influence is unfinished or ongoing. So far, so good. The problem is that, in...

Dear Foreros, I was wondering how you would refer to a sense of belonging in the languages above? As in they finally felt a sense of belonging with the cause as if they belonged. In fact I'm not entirely sure how to refer to belong at all in the languages above. As in this belongs to you, you...

Friends, I want to say "Hatred makes his gaze penetrating". Can I translate as: bair uskii nazar chubhtii huii kar detaa hai? Thanks in advance.

Friends, Grammars say that, when masculine participles are used as nouns, they adopt "the endings of a normal masculine noun in -aa". Specifically, they mention the -oN form, for example: "Stop those who are leaving!" jaate huoN ko roko "Eat the cooked one, not the raw...