Where are You From?

Today we’re going to learn how to ask ‘Where are You From?’ in Hindi and of course we’ll learn how to reply! This is yet another great phrase to use when you first meet someone to get to know them! So are you ready to get straight into it? I’ll introduce you to the phrase first and then we’ll learn all about it! The phrase we’re going to use is…

आप कहाँ से हैं? aap kahaan se hain - Where are you from?
Say it again, and again. Practice makes perfect! Now can you recognise any of these words here? Let’s go through them one by one, are you ready?
You should be very familiar with आप aap - you, and हैं hain - are by now, we’ve seen them loads! Now the word कहाँ kahaan means where. Finally then we have से se, this simply means ‘from’. So literally we are saing ‘you where from are’ - or ‘Where are you from?’. This phrase is the same for Males and for Females!
But now of course we’re going to want to reply to this so let’s learn how to do that. It’s a lot easier than you think I assure you! We simply say…

मैं ____ से हूँ main ___ se hoon - I am from ____.
Where you obviously replace the blank with the name of the country you are from! We are literally saying ‘I …. from am’! This phrase is the same for both Males and Females. So are you ready to learn the names of some countries in Hindi? Great! Most country names are very similar to the names we are used to from English, but a few of them (including the most important India!) are different! So here goes…
भारत bhaarat - India
पाकिस्तान paakistaan - Pakistan
अमेरिका amerikaa - America
इंग्लैंड inglaind - England
चीन ceen - China
So for example, say you were from America then you would say…
मैं अमेरिका से हूँ main amerikaa se hoon - I am from America
Or if there was a group of you from India you might say…
हम भारत से हैं ham bhaarat se hain - We are from India
Can you see our phrase has changed slightly in the last example? That’s because we are saying ‘We are from India’ and not ‘I am from India’. Don’t worry if you’re a little confused!
So why not leave a comment below and tell me where you are from and then ask the question for the next person to reply to! If I haven’t covered the name of your country in the lesson then please feel free to ask me in a comment! Be sure to keep practicing each new phrase you learn!

How Old are You?

Today we’re going to learn another great conversational phrase, we’re going to see how to ask the question ‘How old are you?’ and obviously this is no good if we don’t know how to reply so we’ll also see how to reply with ‘I am ____ years old’ in Hindi! So are you ready to get straight into it? I’ll show you it first then take you through what each of the words mean! Here goes…

आपकी उम्र क्या है? aapkee umr kyaa hai
-How Old are You?
This is the same when asking both males and females. Have you got it? Say it out loud. Read it again - आपकी उम्र क्या है? aapkee umr kyaa hai -How old are you? This you can remember it with enough practice?
So what are all these words here? Well let’s go through them!
Firstly we have आपकी aapkee - This means ‘your’ . The next word is उम्र umr - This (perhaps you’ve already guessed!) means ‘age’ and it’s feminine. So this is the reason we have to say आपकी aapkee and not आपका aapkaa

Hopefully you’re not too confused about this!

The next word is कया kya. Can you remember what this means? We’ve seen it a few times already. Remember? That’s right, it means ‘what?’. And then finally we have है hai which again, we’ve seen plently of times, it means ‘is’ .
Have you got it? Can you understand the phrase now? आपकी उम्र कया है? aapkee umr kyaa hai -How old are you? Or, literally ‘Your age what is?’.
Now obviously the next this we want to know is how to reply with ‘I am ___ years old’. So are you ready to learn that? अच्छा acchaa Great! This is where it becaomes different for males and females…
If you are a male you say…

मैं __ साल का हूँ main ___ saal kaa hoon
- I am __ years old (Said my a Male)
And if you are a female you say…

मैं __ साल की हूँ main ___ saal kee hoon
- I am __ years old (Said by a Female)
Can you see the difference? A male uses the word का kaa and a female uses the word की kee! Obviously, you simply replace the gap with your age!
So for example a 10 year old boy would say…

मैं दस साल का हूँ main das saal kaa hoon
- I am ten years old (Said by a Male)
And a twenty year old Woman would say…

मैं बीस साल की हूँ main bees saal kee hoon
-I am twenty years old (Said by a Female)

न na - Isn’t it?

Today we’re going to learn all about just one tiny but powerful Hindi word. The word is न na. Can you say it? न na! Great. This word is very popular and it’s used all the time so it’s very important to know it.
So what does न na mean? Well it’s a little tricky to put into a single English word actually but न na roughly translates as something like ‘isn’t it?’ or, ‘isn’t that so’, ‘right?’, ‘yeah?’, etc. We use न na at the end of sentence if we’re not completely sure about something but you think it’s probably true. It’s a little hard to example so let me just show you some examples and I’m sure you’ll get the hang of it! Are you ready to go then?

आपका नाम रीना है, न? aapkaa naam reenaa hai na?
- You’re name is Reena isn’t it?
Suppose you knew that this person’s name was Reena but you hadn’t actually met them, this would be a good thing to say! Another example is…

संजीव होशियार है, न? sanjeev hoshiyaar hai na?
- Sanjeev is clever, right?
In case you haven’t figured it out the word होशियार hoshiyaar means Clever! So here it’s like we kind of know Sanjeev is clever but we’re not 100% sure of it, so we add न na! Do you understand? Ready to keep going?

नौ बजे है न? nau baje hai na - It’s Nine o’clock yeah?

One thing to notice is the difference between a question starting with क्या kyaa and a sentance ending with न na. They can be quite confusing! Have a look at the two following sentences…

क्या तुम अपने घर पर हो? kyaa tum apne ghar par ho?
- Are you at your house?
तुम अपने घर पर हो, न? tum apne ghar par ho na?
- You are at your house, right?
Can you see the difference between the two above sentences? Let me explain it, in the first sentence we really don’t know if they are home or not, we’re asking ‘Are you at your house?’, we don’t know where they are! But in the second sentence we have some reason to think they might be at home so we are asking ‘You’re at your house right?’. Can you see the small difference? Great!
Be sure to leave me a question below if you’re confused or if you have any questions at all!

what's the difference between "bata" "bataunga/bataungi" "batao"

bata बता/batao बताओ- tell (imperative) like tell me!
bata is without respect and batao shows respect.

batao - tell
mujhe batao मुझे बताओ - tell me
use batao उसे बताओ -tell him etc.

there is another word bataiyeबताइए ==batao - tell(with respect)

replace batao with bata and sentences are still correct. But this will show no respect towards the listener from ur side.u can use bata with ur close friends or younger persons. but i will suggest u to use batao on the safe side.

bataunga बताऊंगा - i will tell (when male says this)
bataungi बताउंगी- i will tell ( when female says this)

since u r a girl u will say bataungi

even if u dont say main(i) in starting it is obvious that u are talking about urself only so
main bataungi or bataungi both are perfect

Yes, No and Questions in Hindi!

You won’t get very far with a conversation in Hindi if you don’t know how to how to say the words ‘yes’ or ‘no’ or if you don’t know how to ask simple questions, so today that’s what we are going to cover!
So are you ready to get straight into it? अच्छा acchaa - great!

Yes in Hindi is हाँ haan.

And no is… नहीं naheen.
So now, the next thing we need to learn is how to ask a question in Hindi. Today we’re just going to focus on simple questions - which is where we just turn a statement into a question. Let me show you…

You should be able to say ‘This is a house’ in Hindi. Can you figure it out? That’s right we say यह घर है yeh ghar hai - This is a house.
Now, to turn this statement into a question all we do is put the word क्या kyaa at the start! So all we say is क्या यह घर है? kyaa yeh ghar hai? - Is this a house? Can you see? It’s really easy! So how would we reply to this questions? Of course, we’d say हाँ haan - Yes!

Ready for another example? क्या यह बिल्ली है? kyaa yeh billee hai? What does this question mean? That’s right, we’re asking ‘Is this a cat?’. Remember यह बिल्ली है yeh billee hai - means ‘This is a cat’ so adding क्या kyaa to the start changes it to ‘Is this a cat?’. Easy!
So can you answer this question? Easy! We can just say नहीं naheen - no.
Or if you want to answer is a full sentence you could say नहीं, यह बिल्ली नहीं है, उल्लू है naheen, yeh billee naheen hai, ulloo hai - No, this is not a cat, it’s a Owl. Phew that was a bit of a mouthful!
We also have the word जी jee in Hindi, it doesn’t really translate very well into English, but all you need to know is that you put जी jee before either हाँ haan - yes or नहीं naheen - no to show more respect to the person you are talking to. For example suppose your work boss asked you…

क्या यह किताब तुम्हारी है? kyaa yeh kitaab tumhaaree hai? - Is this book yours?
The word तुम्हारी tumhaaree means Your or Yours
And if it was your book you would reply with जी हाँ jee haan - Yes (With respect). See, it’s easy isn’t it!
Practice writing your own simple little questions and reply to them! Feel free to leave a comment below if you want any help! Be sure to practice the words हाँ haan - Yes and नहीं naheen - No, because you’ll be needing them a lot!