A Door Into Hindi: Lesson 2

2. The verb होना and auxiliary verbs

3. Verb infinitive and verb root

4. Present imperfect tense

5.Present Progressive Tense

6."To Want To V"

7. Postpositions (Prevew)

8. "To a place"

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2.2

The verb होना and auxiliary verbs

The simple present tense conjugation of the verb होना is given below. The conjugated forms of होना are used just like the verb "to be" is used in English.

These forms of the verb होना also function as the auxiliary verbs in many other verb tense constructions, including the present imperfect and present progressive conjugations as described in 2.4 and 2.5 below. Memorize this chart as soon as you can.

	Singular	Plural
First person	मैं हूँ (I am)	हम हैं (we are)
Second person (familiar)	तू है (you are)	तुम हो (you are-familiar)
Second Person (polite)	---	आप हैं (you are-polite)
Third person (far)	वह है (he/she/it/that is)	वे हैं (they/those are)
Third person (near)	यह है (he/she/it/this is)	ये हैं (they/these are)

See Snell's Teach Yourself Hindi (2000)
Section 1.1 page 21