A Door Into Hindi: Lesson 2

This topic is covered thoroughly in Lesson 5, but for now, all you need to know is that Hindi uses postpositions where English uses prepositions . Prepositions are the little words that describe position relationships with respect to places, objects, etc. Examples of English prepositions are: "in", "to", "from", "by", "of." In English, prepositions go before the nouns they refer to, but in Hindi, the postpositions go after their nouns.

Compare the examples from Lessons 1 and 2, and note the difference between the English and Hindi word order.

See Snell's Teach Yourself Hindi (2000) Section 3.1 page 40