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I would be curious to see some sample sentence... how's  the grammar if compared to English :)

 

Maybe some of you already know the website tatoeba.org, very interesting because there are sentence pairs in many languages, but it doesn't explain why the translation is what it is

 

for example one sentence there says:

आपका दल हमसे बेहतर है |

Your team is better than ours.

 

but, what is what in that sentence? what is 'team' for example... just out of curiosity, I would like to learn all languages in the universe, the more exotic the better ^^ but one life is not enough :P

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There are few things:

 

Hindi is language in which you write as you speak it and vice versa.

 

In sentences vowels are usually depicted as symbols on consonants unless they are used individually. (called as abugida or alphasyllabary)

 

The common language (or active voice) construction in hindi is usually Subject + object + verbs compared to English where it is subject + verb + object.

 

For example in |English you would write : I am eating a mango

In hindi it would be : मैं एक आम खा रहा हूँ

Here:

मैं - Me (I) [the subject]

एक - one [since there is only one mango;]

आम - mango [object]

खा - eat

रहा - ing form of verb [indicates present continuous tense]

हूँ - is [auxiliary verb?]

 

About translation to above sentence:

आपका - Yours

दल - Team

हमसे - ours (compared to ours)

बेहतर - better

है - is (it functions as auxilary verb) . Most present tense sentences end with this word

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I used to speak urdu which is quite similar to hindi in dialect, right? But forgot it as i never really needed to use it in England...The whole of my mothers side still communicate with the language every now and then...

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I used to speak urdu which is quite similar to hindi in dialect, right? But forgot it as i never really needed to use it in England...The whole of my mothers side still communicate with the language every now and then...

 Yes its quite similiar, only the scripts are different..

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HI-->Namaste

Bye-->Alvida

How are you --> Kaise ho

Good--> acha

Yes---> Haan

No--> Nahi

Congratulation--> Bhadai Ho

 

If u guys want to know more u can ask me :)

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I got Google to phonetically translate it to  " What is your father's property ?? "

 

tere baap ki jagir hai kya??

 

Google asked "Did you mean..."

तेरे बाप की जागीर ही क्या??

 

It's gonna be fun to see the real answer!   :)

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What the hell does he mean with that question?

All i know is that the teams were  axis 3 allies 6 so i put team him to axis

and this and some other sh... i got in return :huh:

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What the hell does he mean with that question?

All i know is that the teams were  axis 3 allies 6 so i put team him to axis

and this and some other sh... i got in return :huh:

i did't wanted to say anything but yeah that he is abusing you in his mother tongue so if he say anything again in hindi do post that to tipsy,Antimony n others indians so that you can take necessary action :P if he do that again so...

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What he said translates to, "Is it your father's property?"

 

The tone of it is used to antagonize/incite someone or tell someone to f*** off.

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