![]() Learn more about how to build Hindi sentences here. Indian children are happy to go to school even though they often have to learn more than two languages before they even graduated from high-school. We saw in a previous article how to conjugate verbs in the present, past and future tense and this article will focus on common, useful or import verbs that any new learner should add to its lexicon. Like in all languages, verbs in Hindi are used to describe an action, a state, a fact or an emotion. Hindi words are written in the Devanagari script while Urdu uses the Persian alphabet. The main difference between the two languages is the script system they use. If you would like to learn more about Hindi tenses take a look at our previous article. Yet, Urdu and Hindi are mutually intelligible, meaning that if you speak Hindi you will be able to understand Urdu. Hindi is not the only language of the Union of India, besides Bengali, Telugu and Marathi, Urdu is also commonly spoken and it is the official language of Pakistan. However, there is no accurate or official estimation of how many words the Hindi language contains, even though the Collin's Hindi-English dictionary boasts more than 250,000-word translations.įor example, the Hindi language has more than 200 words to describe an elephant! The Hindi language and grammar is incredibly rich and through the years, the language borrowed words not only from Sanskrit, the most ancient Indian language but from Persian, Arabic and English as well. Verbs are often formed with a noun so learning a verb is a one-stone-two-birds situation. If you started to learn Hindi recently, some of the most useful words you want to add to your vocabulary will be verbs. ![]()
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