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Re: Hindi Greetings & Basics

Postby Meera » 2013-06-16, 2:58

These words are still used in Hindi though.
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Re: Hindi Greetings & Basics

Postby mōdgethanc » 2013-07-30, 1:52

Meera wrote:These words are still used in Hindi though.
Of course they are, but the reason they're written with the -a at the end is probably because that's how they were pronounced in Sanskrit. I think Westerners were interested in Sanskrit before they were in modern Indic languages because it was the liturgical language of Hinduism and also because it was very useful to linguistics because of its age.
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Re: Hindi Greetings & Basics

Postby suneethhyd » 2013-08-23, 11:40

1 ) गौतम बुद्ध - Gautama Buddha
2 ) धर्म - Dharma - Faith, Virtue
3 ) योग - Yoga - Meditation
4 ) कर्म - Karma - Destiny, Action
5 ) महाभारत - Mahabharata - Epic mythological battle
6 ) कृष्ण - Krishna - Hindu deity
7 ) शिव - Shiva - Hindu deity
8 ) मंत्र - Mantra - Chant
9 ) आयुर्वेद - Ayurveda - Traditional Indian medicine.
10 ) महाराष्ट्र - Maharashtra - One of India's largest states.

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Re: Hindi Greetings & Basics

Postby jimmymax37 » 2016-06-01, 1:57

Is it appropriate for me to say, dhanyavāda Guru? I have a friend that lives in Kannada and I want to properly thank him for his help. Thank You

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Re: Hindi Greetings & Basics

Postby jimmymax37 » 2016-06-01, 2:18

Is it appropriate for me to say, dhanyavāda Guru? I have a friend that lives in Kannada and I want to properly thank him for his help. Thank You

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Re: Hindi Greetings & Basics

Postby Meera » 2016-06-02, 15:03

jimmymax37 wrote:Is it appropriate for me to say, dhanyavāda Guru? I have a friend that lives in Kannada and I want to properly thank him for his help. Thank You


You might want to ask this question in the South Asian forum since Kannada is quite different from Hindi:

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Re: Hindi Greetings & Basics

Postby Paulz » 2019-01-18, 20:14

PDK wrote:Hallo i want to know how is the translation of the sentence to Hindi:
I do not live,i burn


"Main jeeta nahi, jalta hung."
That's the closest I can come up with, hope that helps.

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Re: Hindi Greetings & Basics

Postby Forever Knowledge » 2019-01-19, 19:38

Paulz wrote:
PDK wrote:Hallo i want to know how is the translation of the sentence to Hindi:
I do not live,i burn


"Main jeeta nahi, jalta hung."
That's the closest I can come up with, hope that helps.


Good suggestion, but using Hindi spelling might be more helpful: मैं जीता नहीं, जलता हूँ।

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Re: Hindi Greetings & Basics

Postby vikrantrao » 2019-06-07, 12:42

I studied sanskrit for 5 years in my matriculation but now no idea about it! Great to find a thread related to this.

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Re: Hindi Greetings & Basics

Postby linguoboy » 2019-06-07, 14:56

vikrantrao wrote:I studied sanskrit for 5 years in my matriculation but now no idea about it! Great to find a thread related to this.

This is a thread about Hindi, not Sanskrit.
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Re: Hindi Greetings & Basics

Postby vijayjohn » 2020-03-29, 9:17

mōdgethanc wrote:
Meera wrote:These words are still used in Hindi though.
Of course they are, but the reason they're written with the -a at the end is probably because that's how they were pronounced in Sanskrit.

I don't think that's quite true, but they are indeed pronounced that way in some Indian languages. They may also have been pronounced that way in some of the Prakrits (Pali comes to mind for me).

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Re: Hindi Greetings & Basics

Postby umairaasem » 2020-04-14, 22:03

Why is Om in Hindi written like this ---> ॐ
And not like this --> ओम

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Re: Hindi Greetings & Basics

Postby linguoboy » 2020-04-15, 0:56

umairaasem wrote:Why is Om in Hindi written like this ---> ॐ
And not like this --> ओम

A short answer is that this is a syllable with special spiritual significance. It's not unusual in these cases for a peculiar written form to develop. (Compare the ☧ in Christianity.)

A longer answer is that Devanagari is filled with ligatures, which are combinations of multiple letters into a single written symbol. You can see a whole host of them here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devanagari_conjuncts.

When you compare the other examples, suddenly a character which combines the vowel ओ with the candrabindu into a single unified form doesn't seem that exceptional.
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Re: Hindi Greetings & Basics

Postby salaam123 » 2021-06-12, 13:19

When does "hai" come in a sentence and when is it omitted?

Like for example there are two sentences:

1. vuh patr likhta hai

2. ve bohut kam nahin karti(n)

Could I place "hai(n)" in the second sentence as well?

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Re: Hindi Greetings & Basics

Postby vijayjohn » 2022-02-13, 14:40

salaam123 wrote:When does "hai" come in a sentence

I'd say at the end of a clause
and when is it omitted?

My understanding is that it can be omitted especially when it doesn't mean 'are' or 'is' and especially in spoken Hindi.
Like for example there are two sentences:

1. vuh patr likhta hai

2. ve bohut kam nahin karti(n)

Could I place "hai(n)" in the second sentence as well?

As far as I'm aware, yes.


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