Songs in Hindi and Urdu

[EmrldAnkh]

Namaskar,

I do not know what this means. It is one of my favorite songs, and I cannot find the meaning of the words anywhere. "Sun Zara"

Could someone please let me know.

Shukriiyaa'

Peggy

[Rémy LeBeau]

It means something like "Just listen for a second". "Zara" is hard to translate into English, I don't think a word for it exists, but generally it is used with a command, eg "sun" (listen) and can mean "a little" or "for a second".

[EmrldAnkh]

shukriiyaa

Peggy

[Meera]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqN5cmkS74k

The qaulity is kind of bad on the video, but I love this song and the movie, it was soo cute

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bua_QY1awj8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIc5ALdd4NY

These are very old but really good

[eskandar]

Laal performing "Kal Aaj Aur Kal" by Aitzaz Ahsan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWBBbLLjysY
English translation here

[Meera]

Nice song!

[Meera]

A.R Rahman songs-

Chaiya Chaiya-http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=AOOlgbfFy3k

Dil Se Re-http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=uNpzlANgvDk

Isqh bina- http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=CP-OBgfgvy0

Taal se Taal Mila-http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=qFZa-MxJZQk

Kahin Aaj Lage-http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=L6v0XWJ5XcU

ek Mohabbat-http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=WP-YhQPnuNI

Nahin Saamne-http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=MOLztuvNy-E

tere bina-http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=BhB92yZ-jLo

[zhiguli]

anyone know where i can find the lyrics/translation for this song?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pW7W_pvTvCM

[chrysalis]

Bekhudi meiN sanam, uTh gae jo qadam (बेख़ुदी में सनम उठ गए जो क़दम)
Muhammad Rafi - Lata Mangeshkar

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6yZe0uLmS8

A very nice one.

[Meera]

oh i love that song chrysalis

song from deewar-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqlVPyZ6A-Q

tum mile-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTbzzOe4 ... re=related

Jal-chalte chalte
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCC7ZSa2 ... re=related

Phir Milenge Chalte Chalte from Rab Ne bana Di jodi (rani, kajol, bips, preity and lara make specail apperence in the song)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqzPCbitf7o

Dance Pe Chance-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3dscnG0 ... re=related

[Meera]

Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam- Man Mohini
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ma6NM3ZVkUE

I love this song

[Meera]

O Saaya from Slumdog Millionaire I am obessed with this song! Lol

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHUQht1HRmY

Also Jai Ho.... I love this song too

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DciW_yuQGCw

[Meera]

oodhni- from tere naam

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cZR8mQJMy8

[Meera]

Tu salaa kam se gaya

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqTZpvzaLXQ

[Meera]

मैं यह गाना बहुत पसंद है. (Please correct this sentace)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYaBSrnDNSs

[eskandar]

मैं यह गाना बहुत पसंद है. (Please correct this sentace)

I'm just a beginner, but I thought it should be मुझे यह गाना बहुत पसंद है

[Meera]

मैं यह गाना बहुत पसंद है. (Please correct this sentace)

I'm just a beginner, but I thought it should be मुझे यह गाना बहुत पसंद है

Yeah I think you are right. I thought that too. But the translater thing said the Mai... i dk?

[Rémy LeBeau]

Pasaṅd hona in Hindi works the same as gustar in Spanish; the subject (ye gāna) becomes the object of the verb, so you get: ye gāna pasaṅd hai (this song is pleasing), and you add mujhe (me, to me) to the beginning to show who it is pleasing too. This is always done with the oblique pronouns, which have long and short forms:

Me / To me - Mujhe / Mujh ko
You / To you- Tujhe / Tujh ko
Him, her it / To him, her, it - Isse / Is ko (near)
Him, her, it / To him, her, it - Usse / Us ko (far)
Us - To us - Humeṅ / Hum ko
You - To you - Tumeṅ / Tum ko
You - To you- Āp ko
Them / To them - Inheṅ - In ko (near)
Them / To them - Unheṅ - Un ko (far)

You can also say (which seems a lot more logical to me): Ye gāna mujhe acha lagta hai, lagna is used a lot in compound verbs with different meanings, but in this sentence I guess you could describe it as 'to seem good', but with the strength of 'to like' in English.

[eskandar]

Thanks for listing the oblique pronouns, I'm having a lot of trouble with them. If I understand correctly, mujhe is "me" in the dative/accusative case (ie "to me"), and mujh ko is more strictly dative, right? (Or can mujh ko also be accusative?) What's further confusing to me is when you would use one form over another. Do certain verbs require either mujhe or mujh ko, or is it more a matter of individual preference? For instance, I know "I have to go" as mujhe jana hai. Would mujh ko jana hai also be acceptable, and if so, is the meaning identical or different? I imagine that the short form is more colloquial and the long form more literary, but that's just a guess.

Finally, how do you distinguish usse (to it) from us se (from it)? Is there a significant pause in the second one to help you tell them apart?

[Rémy LeBeau]

There is no difference between the long and the short forms, they are used completely interchangeably, but forms with -e instead of -ko are preferred when speaking cause it rolls off the tongue better and doesn't interrupt the flow, otherwise the meanings are completely identical. Generally people switch between them depending on which will sound nicer in the sentence they want to use it in.

As for usse/us se, the first one is pronounced more like 'use', with no breaking or pausing, in fact in Urdu it is only written with 1 s, اسے, whereas the 2nd one doesn't have a pause, but you drag out the first s before going into se, and they are written as two separate words, اس سے.