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Compound verbs, a highly visible feature of Hindi–Urdu grammar, consist of a verbal stem plus a light verb. The light verb (also called "subsidiary", "explicator verb", and "vector" [ 55 ] ) loses its own independent meaning and instead "lends a certain shade of meaning" [ 56 ] to the main or stem verb, which "comprises the lexical core of ...
Kamta Prasad Guru (1875 – 16 November 1947) was an expert on grammar of Hindi language. He was the author of the book Hindi vyakarana. He was born in Sagar, which is today in Madhya Pradesh state in India. His Hindi grammar book has been translated into many foreign languages. Kamta Prasad Guru died in Jabalpur.
Among the close vowels, what in Sanskrit are thought to have been primarily distinctions of vowel length (that is /i, iː/ and /u, uː/), have become in Hindustani distinctions of quality, or length accompanied by quality (that is, /ɪ, iː/ and /ʊ, uː/). [7]
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 .
5 the indicative future for the perfective and progressive aspects can alternatively also use the copula "rêhnā" (to stay), they are roughly synonymous. 6 the simple perfect verb forms when used in an if-cause or a relative clause , they would not be considered perfect indicative but instead a type of future subjunctive.
Kellogg's Hindi Grammar (1876, 1893) is still consulted today. [11] However, 18 years after Kellogg's death in 1899, Edwin Greaves of the London Missionary Society , and author of a Grammar of Modern Hindi (1896, 1908, 1921), in 1917 signalled his concerns about the adequacy of Hindi Bible translations in his Report on Protestant Hindi ...
Part of the Vyomamandala showing the rudras - circa 5th century CE, Katra Keshav Dev; currently at Mathura Museum.. The Thirty-three gods, or Tridasha (Sanskrit: त्रिदश, romanized: Tridaśa, lit.
[4] [5] To some Hindus, the word Bhagavan is an abstract, genderless concept of God. In Buddhism's Pali and Sanskrit scriptures, the term is used to denote Gautama Buddha, referring him as Bhagavā or Bhagavān (translated with the phrase "Lord" or "The Blessed One"). [6] [7] The term Bhagavan is also found in Theravada, Mahayana and Tantra ...