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Hindi: Words
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Hindi is a verb-final language and word-order of Hindi is SOV (Subject, Object and Verb). So, for example, the English sentence 'John eats bread' will be written as 'John bread eats' in Hindi.
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Hindi uses a different word order than English. The main differences are that verbs are placed at the end of the sentence (as in German) and that Hindi uses postpositions instead of prepositions. Postpositions are like prepositions except that they are written after the noun.
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The dropping of schwa at the end in Hindi (for Sanskrit loanwords) causes a big problem for foreigners (Westerners learning Hindi). The IAST a appended to the end of these words rather confuses the foreigners to pronounce it as or รข€"this makes the masculine Sanskrit/Hindi words sound feminine. Some examples are given below:
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Many words in English are as they are in English, for example, a brush is called a brush in spoken Hindi, a doctor is called a doctor. But there exist extremely pure Hindi words, which have been included in the dictionary.
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The student is expected to observe carefully, and is introduced to the Hindi sounds and alphabet. They listen to the basic sounds, hear how the language is spoken, and have a look at how the words are written and the simpler methods of writing. There are 20 lessons included in this section.
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