Learn how to use the verb "to do"
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| namasTe meraa naam preranaa hai. aap se milkar khushi hui. |
| Hi, My name is Prerana. Nice to meet you. |
| Welcome to HindiPod101.com’s “Hindi in 3 Minutes.” The fastest, easiest, and most fun way to learn Hindi. |
| In the last lesson, we learned how to use the verb jaana which means "to go" in Hindi. |
| In this lesson, we will learn another very common Hindi verb. |
| This is karna, which means "to do." But as in English, you’ll see that the meaning of this verb is quite broad and it can be found in many different situations. |
| So imagine someone asks you Tum kya kar rahe ho? |
| This would be an informal way to ask a male "What are you doing?". |
| If the speaker were talking to a woman, rahe changes into rahii and it would become Tum kya kar rahii ho? |
| So if you are doing your homework, for example, a man might say main homework kar rahaa hoon |
| [slowly] main work kar rahaa hoon |
| If you are a female, you’d say main homework kar rahii hoon. It’s the same, but the “raha” becomes “rahii” |
| So let’s break down this answer: |
| First we had: |
| main which is "I" |
| work which means homework |
| After this comes |
| kar rahaa which is a form of karna, to do. It means something like “I am doing” when said by a male. kar rahii would be its feminine form. hoon which is the verb “to be” used in the first person singlular. It is something like “am” in English. |
| Let’s look at another example. If someone asks you to come and give him a hand but you are preparing dinner, you can say main khaanaa banaa raha ahoon! which literally means "I am preparing the meal!" Here we are using rahii for present continuous when said by a male. |
| rahaa changes into rahii in first person feminine. For example main khaanaa banaa rahii hoon. |
| For masculine and feminine plural, it changes into rahe, so it becomes hum khaanaa banaa rahe hain |
| Now it’s time for Prerana’s Points |
| Did you know that karna is related to the common English word, “Karma?” Both are related to the Sanskrit word for acts or deeds. Though in English, the word is often used to express the idea that being good leads to good fortune and being bad leads to bad fortune, its original sense was closer to the modern Hindi in its meaning of “to do” something. |
| In this lesson, we learned how to use the verb karnaa and the word rahaa in many different contexts. I’m sure it will help you a lot! |
| In the next lesson we’ll learn another very useful phrase, achhaa lagnaa |
| Do you know what this means? |
| I'll be waiting for you with the answer in the next Hindi in 3 Minutes lesson. |
| Phir milenge. See you then! |
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