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  2. Hindustani grammar - Wikipedia

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    Hindustani has personal pronouns for the first and second persons, while for the third person demonstratives are used, which can be categorised deictically as proximate and non-proximate. [ 24 ] tū , tum , and āp are the three 2P pronouns, constituting a threefold scale of sociolinguistic formality: respectively, intimate , familiar , and ...

  3. Hindustani verbs - Wikipedia

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    Hindustani is extremely rich in complex verbs formed by the combinations of noun/adjective and a verb. Complex verbs are of two types: transitive and intransitive. [3]The transitive verbs are obtained by combining nouns/adjectives with verbs such as karnā 'to do', lenā 'to take', denā 'to give', jītnā 'to win' etc.

  4. Hindustani declension - Wikipedia

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    Note: The formal 2nd person pronoun आप آپ (āp) does not have possessive pronoun forms, instead the genitive postposition का کا (kā) is used with the oblique case to form the possessive pronoun.

  5. Hindi pronouns - Wikipedia

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    Hindi has personal pronouns in the first and second person, but not the third person, where demonstratives are used instead. They are inflected for case and number (singular, and plural), but not for gender. Pronouns decline for four grammatical cases in Hindi: The nominative case, the accusative/dative case and two postpositional cases, the ...

  6. Grammatical conjugation - Wikipedia

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    Plural persons 1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd Germanic Proto-Germanic *wesaną *immi *izi *isti *izum *izud *sindi Anglo-Saxon wesan: eom eart is sind sindon English be: am are art 1 be'st 1: is are 11: are German sein: bin bist ist sind seid sind Yiddish transliterated: זיין zayn: בין bin: ביסט bist: איז iz: זענען/זײַנען ...

  7. Dual (grammatical number) - Wikipedia

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    Dual (abbreviated DU) is a grammatical number that some languages use in addition to singular and plural.When a noun or pronoun appears in dual form, it is interpreted as referring to precisely two of the entities (objects or persons) identified by the noun or pronoun acting as a single unit or in unison.

  8. Grammatical number - Wikipedia

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    The 'minimal' number is the smallest possible group for each category. For 1st exclusive, 2nd, and 3rd, this is one, and for 1st inclusive, this is two. Unit augmented is one more than minimal. For 1st exclusive, 2nd, and 3rd, this is two, and for 1st inclusive, this is three. Augmented is an equivalent to plural.

  9. Hindustani etymology - Wikipedia

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    Hindustani, also known as Hindi-Urdu, is the vernacular form of two standardized registers used as official languages in India and Pakistan, namely Hindi and Urdu.It comprises several closely related dialects in the northern, central and northwestern parts of the Indian subcontinent but is mainly based on Khariboli of the Delhi region.