Hindi

When an object is transferred to someone or for someone, the receiver of the object will be in the dative case...

Hinglish is a term used to describe the mixing of Hindi and English words in one sentence. In India, you’ll hear some quirky English phrases that have formed from the grammar and syntax of Hindi. ...

The instrumental case can also be used to convert a speech from an active voice to a passive voice. In the active voice, the subject performs the verb. In the passive voice the verb is performed on the object by or through the subject. The subject acts as a king of instrument...

In a sentence like this, “I eat rice with a spoon”, “spoon” would be written in the instrumental case in Hindi. This is because the spoon is used as an “instrument” to eat the rice. In English, the instrumental case can be indicated by using words like, “by” or “with”. Let’s take a look ...

The accusative case marks the object of the sentence. So in a sentence such as, “I eat rice”, rice will be the कर्म or the object of the sentence. The accusative suffix marker is को. So the sentence “I eat mango” will be आम को. When को is attached to a s...

In Hindi, there are several cases or कारक. The first case or the nominative case (कर्ता) deals with the subject of a sentence. In English, the subject of the sentence, “Sunil dances” would be “Sunil”. In the nominative case, ...

Just like I promised, I’ll provide the answers for the blanks in the last post and the feminine past and future. ...

We’ll take a look at how locative words like here (यहाँ)etc. are used with the tenses we’ve covered so far. I’ll provi...

Even today, the caste system continues to be a controvercial topic in India. What makes it even more complicated is that the caste system is divided into clans like the अग्रवाल, which shows that it’s superficial to explain Indians in terms of just castes. The question t...

In Hindi the term जाति is the word for caste. The caste system consists of the ब्राह्मण class. The ब्राह्मण class is the class of priests, scholars and teachers. There’s also the क्षत्रिय class, composed of soldiers, kings and nobles. The trading class is the वैश्य class. Then there’s the श...