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| namaste. meraa naam Preranaa hai. Hi everybody! I’m Prerana. |
| Welcome to HindiPod101.com’s “Tiin minat mein hinDii siikhiye.” The fastest, easiest, and most fun way to learn Hindi. |
| In the last lesson we learned how to count rupees. Did you practice at home? |
| In this lesson, we're going to learn other useful tips to talk about your schedule- for example, if a friend asks you "What are you doing this weekend?" |
| Let’s start! |
| To ask a male friend or a male person you already know, you say: |
| Tum is hafTe ke anT mein kyaa kar rahe ho? |
| [slowly] Tum is haf-Te ke anT mein kyaa kar ra-he ho? |
| To ask a female friend or a female person you already know, you say: |
| Tum is hafTe ke anT mein kyaa kar rahe ho? |
| [slowly] Tum is hafTe ke anT mein kyaa kar ra-he ho? |
| Let’s break it down. |
| Tum is the informal way of saying “you”. |
| Is means “this”. |
| hafTe ke anT literally means at the end of this week and translates as “weekend”. |
| Next, is mein which means “in”. |
| kyaa means “what”. |
| Finally, kar rahe ho means “are doing” when you’re addressing a male. |
| And kar rahe ho, means the same “are doing”, when you’re addressing a female. |
| If you want to ask the same question in a formal way, turn Tum into aap, the formal version. |
| Then you need to change ho to hain, because it’s referring to a different pronoun aap and not Tum. |
| So, when asking a male, you say |
| aap is hafTe ke anT mein kyaa kar rahe hain? |
| [slowly] aap is haf-Te ke anT mein kyaa kar ra-he hain |
| And when asking a female, you say |
| aap is hafTe ke anT mein kyaa kar rahe hain? |
| [slowly] aap is haf-Te ke anT mein kyaa kar ra-he hain? |
| What if you’re not asking about this weekend? Asking about a different time period is as easy as replacing hafte ke ant with another time period and the word men with ko. |
| So if you are asking about a weekday, like somvaar, “Monday”, or ravivaar, “Sunday”. |
| aap somvaar ko kyaa kar rahe hain?- for a male . |
| And aap somvaar ko kyaa kar rahii hain?- for a female. |
| What about tomorrow? Tomorrow is kal. In this case, using ko is optional. So you can just say |
| aap kal kyaa kar rahe hain?- for a male and aap kal kyaa kar rahii hain?- for a female. |
| So now, if someone asks *you* |
| Tum kal kyaa kar rahe ho? |
| or |
| Tum kal kyaa kar rahii ho? |
| "What are you doing tomorrow?", how can you answer? |
| Here's an example: main aafis jaa rahaa hoon- if you are a male. |
| main aafis jaa rahii hoon- if you are a female. |
| Main means “I” |
| aafis is “office. |
| jaa rahaa hoon is “am going” when said by a male and jaa rahii hoon is also “am going” but when said by a female. |
| Feel free to replace "office" with any other location! |
| Now it’s time for Prerana’s Insights. |
| In some situations, the question aap kyaa karTe hain? for a male and aap kyaa karTii hain? for a female, can also mean more generally, “What do you do?” or “What is your job?” |
| This is a really common question you can ask, or that you might be asked the first time you meet someone. |
| In this lesson we learned how to talk about your schedule. Next time we are going to learn how to use the verb honaa "to be". We'll also talk about how to tell people your nationality. |
| I'll be waiting for you in the next “Tiin minat mein hinDii seekhiye.” |
| Shukriyaa aur fir milenge! |
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