自学印地语5：你想什么？

मुझको दिल्ली पसंद है.
mujhko dilli pasand hai. I like Delhi.
हमको दिल्ली पसंद है .
hamko dilli pasand hai. We like Delhi.

These sentences translate literally as 'Delhi is pleasing to me/us'; the word
दिल्ली  dilli
is the subject of the verb  है hai 'is', with the 'me/us‘ expressed in the oblique. Here are some more examples.

क्या राम को यह जगह पसंद है?
kya Ram ko yah jagah pasand hai? Does Ram like this place?
हमको वह आदमी पसंद नहीं है .
hamko vah admi pasand nahin hai. We don't like that man.
मेरे दोस्त को ये तस्वीरे पसंद नहीं हैं.
mere dost ko ye tasvire pasand nahin hain. My friend doesn't like thesen pictures.

IMPORTANT!

GRAMMATICAL HEALTH WARNING

Constructions using को  ko can damage your grammar

Take care: as you learn more Hindi you will see that this switch from English'!' to Hindi
मुझ को  mujh ko 'to me'
is very common. The focus of'!' sentences is the person who experiences, but
मुझको mujhko
sentences have the experience itself as the focus. We call these
‘मुझको  mujhko'
constructions.

Needing and wanting things

Another
मुझको  mujhko
construction expresses 'I need' or 'I want‘ using the word ची  cahie -literally 'is wanted'. There's no hai used with
चाहिए  cahie.

तुमको क्या चाहिए ?
tumko kya chahie? What do you want/need?
मुझको काफी चाहिए.
mujhko kati chame. I want/need coffee.
हमको भी फाफी चाहिए .
hamko bhi kati came. We want/need coffee too.

किसीको चाय चाहिए ?
kisko chay cahie? Who wants/needs tea?
राजी को चाय चाहिए .
Raju ko chay chahie. Raju wants/needs tea.

Remember that
किस kis
is the oblique of
कौन kaun 'who?'
, as in
किसको  kisko 'to whom?'.

Knowing things


A similar construction means 'I know' , using the word
मालूम  malum -literally 'known'.
A difference from the
चाहिए  cahie
construction
   is that
है  hai
is used here (though it can be dropped in the negative).