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However the orders are reversed to have a good-luck word at the very beginning of the work; vṛddhir happens to mean 'prosperity' in its non-technical use. Thus the two sutras consist of a list of phonemes, followed by a technical term; the final interpretation of the two sutras above is thus: 1.1.1: {ā, ai, au} are called vṛ́ddhi.
Hindustani distinguishes two genders (masculine and feminine), two noun types ( count and non-count), two numbers (singular and plural), and three cases ( nominative, oblique, and vocative ). [ 7] Nouns may be further divided into two classes based on declension, called type-I, type-II, and type-III. The basic difference between the two ...
Perlative case. movement through or along. through/along the house. Evenki | Tocharian A & B | Warlpiri | Yankunytjatjara. Prolative case (= prosecutive case, vialis case) movement using a surface or way. by way of/through the house. Erzya | Estonian (rare) | Finnish (rare) [ 6] | Tlingit | Greenlandic | Inuktitut.
Indefinite pronouns. There are two indefinite pronouns in Hindi: कोई koī (someone, somebody) and कुछ kuch (something). कुछ kuch is also used as an adjective (numeral and quantitative) and as an adverb meaning ‘some, a few, a little, partly.’. Similarly, कोई koī can be used as an adverb in the sense of ‘some ...
e. Hindi-Urdu, also known as Hindustani, has three noun cases (nominative, oblique, and vocative) [ 1][ 2] and five pronoun cases (nominative, accusative, dative, genitive, and oblique). The oblique case in pronouns has three subdivisions: Regular, Ergative, and Genitive. There are eight case-marking postpositions in Hindi and out of those ...
An idiom is a common word or phrase with a figurative, non-literal meaning that is understood culturally and differs from what its composite words' denotations would suggest; i.e. the words together have a meaning that is different from the dictionary definitions of the individual words (although some idioms do retain their literal meanings – see the example "kick the bucket" below).
The aspects of Hindi when conjugated into their personal forms can be put into five grammatical moods: indicative, presumptive, subjunctive, contrafactual, and imperative. In Hindi, the aspect marker is overtly separated from the tense/mood marker. Periphrastic Hindi verb forms consist of two elements. The first of these two elements is the ...
Habitual aspect. In linguistics, the aspect of a verb is a grammatical category that defines the temporal flow (or lack thereof) in a given action, event, or state. [1] [2] As its name suggests, the habitual aspect ( abbreviated HAB ), not to be confused with iterative aspect or frequentative aspect, specifies an action as occurring habitually ...