Hindi: chaahe tum kuchh na kaho, main ne sun liya ki saathi pyaar ka mujhe chun liya

[sga]

Hi,

I just heard this:

चाहे तुम कुछ ना कहो, मैंने सुन लिया
कि साथी प्यार का मुझे चुन लिया

Is the second line grammatically correct? It doesn't seem to be correct from the point of view of Urdu!

 

[Qureshpor]

Hi,

I just heard this:

चाहे तुम कुछ ना कहो, मैंने सुन लिया
कि साथी प्यार का मुझे चुन लिया

Is the second line grammatically correct? It doesn't seem to be correct from the point of view of Urdu!

The first line should be:

चाहे तुम कुछ न कहो, मैंने सुन लिया

As for the second line, I believe it ought to be:

कि साथी प्यार का तुमने मुझे चुन लिया

 

[littlepond]

Hi,

I just heard this:

चाहे तुम कुछ ना कहो, मैंने सुन लिया
कि साथी प्यार का मुझे चुन लिया

Is the second line grammatically correct? It doesn't seem to be correct from the point of view of Urdu!

The second line is fine from the point of view of Urdu or Hindi: "tuu ne" is elided, that's all.

 

[desi4life]

The second line is fine from the point of view of Urdu or Hindi: "tuu ne" is elided, that's all.

I would suggest तुमने rather than तूने in the second line to be consistent with तुम in the first line. But otherwise I agree that it’s just an elision.

 

[Frau Moore]

ग़ज़ब किया तिरे वअ'दे पे ए'तिबार किया
तमाम रात क़यामत का इंतिज़ार किया

A beautiful literary example of this type of elision by Daagh Dehlvi

 

[littlepond]

I would suggest तुमने rather than तूने in the second line to be consistent with तुम in the first line.

Yeah, agree!

 

[Ali Smith]

चाहे तुम कुछ ना कहो, मैंने सुन लिया
कि साथी प्यार का मुझे चुन लिया

I believe na is spelled न in Hindi (and نہ in Urdu). Am I correct?

 

[desi4life]

I believe na is spelled न in Hindi (and نہ in Urdu). Am I correct?

Both न and ना are used in Hindi. ना is a more “emphatic” form.

 

[littlepond]

I believe na is spelled न in Hindi (and نہ in Urdu). Am I correct?

Both न and ना are there and have different pronunciations. The song in question has the sound "naa" (not "na"), so of course the spelling would be ना .