自学印地语5：你想什么？

05 what do you want?

to talk about likes and needs expressions for
'to get'
and 'to know'
Language points
• oblique-case expressions
• imperfective of 'to be'

1 Obliques again
Geeta talks to her children
2 What do you like, what do you want?
Liking things
Needing and wanting things
Knowing things

3 Availability - 'to get, to find'
Practise what you've learnt
WHAT'S AVAILABLE
WHERE TO FIND TT/THEM
The general and the particular

4 Revisionl
Some hints on learning
Raju visits a hotel
Quantities
Exercise 5a
Exercise 5b
Glossary

1 Obliques again

Just when you thought you'd got things straight, we go oblique again! This time it's with the pronouns. To say 'to me', 'from etc., we need to use a postposition, which means that the prononsaton must become oblique. (Look back to Unit 3 if you're uncertain about the use of obliques.)

The good news is that हम  ham, आप  aap pand तुम  tum don't change at all in the oblique:
हाँ को Ham ko to us
आपको  को apko to you
तुको tumko to you
The bah news is that the others do chenge –like this.

Direct  
मैं Main
तु Tu
यह Yah
वह Vah
ये Ye
वे Ve
कौन Kaun
लॉन kaun

OBLIQUE + को  ko
मुझ को Mujh ko to me
तुझ tujh ko to you
इस को is ko to him, her, it, this
us ko Us ko to him, her, it, that

इन को in ko to them, these
उन को un ko to them, those
किस को kis ko to whom (singular)
किन को kinko to whom (plural