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बड़ा कमरा बार आदमी.
bada kamra, bara admi big room, big man.
बड़ी तस्वीर ,बड़ी किताब .
badi tasvir, badi kitab big picture, big book.
बड़ा कुट्टी ,छोटी बिल्ली .
bada kutti, choti billi big dog, small cat

Some adjectives never change

Only those adjectives that end -a in the masculine change to -i in the feminine. Other adjectives never change, and so are called 'invariable';
ठीक thik 'OK' is a good
example.

यह किताब ठीक है .
yah kitab thik hai. This book is OK.
यह कमरा ठीक है .
yah kamra thik hai. This room is OK.
मनोज तजिक है .
Manoj thik hai. Manoj is OK.

A few adjectives ending in -a are invariable despite this ending.Examples are जिंदा  zinda 'alive' and शादा-शुदी shadi-shuda'married'. A few adjectives ending in -I, such as  खली  'vacant, empty, free',are also invariable.

क्या बिल्ली जिंदा है ?
kya billi zinda hai? Is the cat alive?
गीता शादी-शुदा है .
Gita shadi-shuda hai. Geeta is married.
यह कमरा खली है .
yah kamra khali hai. This room is free.
  

Did you know?

Though India's linguistic diversity has made it difficult for Hindi(or any other language) to gain the status of a true 'national language', Hindi is spoken by some 350 million people in the subcontinent - the 1991 census gives the figure of 337,272,114us gives the figure of  (source: www.ceDSUSindia.net).

Role play
In this role play, your name is Geeta Sharma and you are married to Raju Sharma; you have a brother, Rakesh, and a sister, Sita - she's. unwell, but everyone else is OK.Answer these questIons:

क्या आप फीता है ?
  kya aap Gita hai?
  आपका पूरा नाम क्या है ?
  apka pura nam kya hai?
क्या आप शादी-शुदा  है ?
  kya  ap shadi-shuda hail
  रक्र्ष कौन है ?
  Rakesh kaun hai?

  सीता कौन है ?
   Sita kaun hai?
   क्या आपकी बहिन ठीक है ?
   kya aapki bahin thik hai?
  क्या आपका भाई बीमार है ?
  kya aapka bhai bimar hai?
  क्या आप बीमार है ?
  kya aap bimar hai?

2 Number
English usually makes nouns singular plural by adding an 's', as in 'one book, two books'. In Hindi it's a bit more complicated, because masculine and feminine nouns behave differently. We'll look at masculine nouns first.