自学印地语4 ：有一些茶叶

But the verb बताना  batani 'to tell' uses को  ko-
राम को बताओ.
Ram ko batao. Tell Ram.

Practise what you've learnt

Using both तुम tum  and आप aap forms, make up some requests and commands from the following lists. Make some of your example snegative by using if na or ना na or मत mat. Here's an example:

yah kitab dhyan se padhie. Read this book carefully.

OBJECTS
समोसा samosa m. samosa
किताब kitab f. book
हिन्दी hindi f. Hindi
पानी pani m. water

कहानी khani m. food
और चाय aur cay f. more tea
घर ghar home
मेरी meri bat f. what I say, my words
यह yah this
ये ye these

ADVERBS
अब ab now
अभी abhi right now
जल्दी धीरे jaldi se quickly
जोर से zor se loudly
धीरे धीरे dhire dhire slowly

यहाँ yaha here
यहीं yahin right here
ध्यान से dhyan se carefully
फिर से phir se again

VERBS
कहना kahni to say
खाना khani to eat
चलाना chalana to drive (vehicle)

जाना jana to go
देखना dekhni to see, look at
पढ़ना padhni to read
पीनी pini to drink
पूछना  puchna to ask

बताना batana to tell
बात करना bat kama to talk,converse
baithni to sit
बोलना bolna to speak
रखना rakhna to put, to keep
सीखना sikhna to learn
सुनना sunna to listen

Did you know?

Like all the major languages of northern India, Hindi derives from Sanskrit, India's classical language. Sanskrit is a member of the Indo-European language family that includes Greek, Latin and the modem languages of Western Europe. So hindi is a distant cousin of English, French, German etc.