A Door Into Hindi: Lesson 3

1. Nouns: masculine and feminine

2.Nouns: singular and plural

3. Adjectives

4. Possessive Pronouns

5. का /के /की

6. अपना

7. Emphatics

8. सकना = "To Be Able To V"

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3.6

अपना

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Hindi has a special possessive pronoun, अपना, meaning "one's own" which must be used when the subject of a sentence and the possessor are the same. Like all other possessive pronouns, अपना changes to reflect the gender and number of the thing possessed.

Examples:

	I know my name.
Wrong	मैं मेरा नाम जानती हूँ।
Right	मैं अपना नाम जानती हूँ।
	He is eating his (own) bread.
Wrong	वह उसकी रोटी खा रहा है।
Right	वह अपनी रोटी खा रहा है।
But NOTE:	He is eating his (someone else's) bread.
Wrong	वह अपनी रोटी खा रहा है।
Right	वह उसकी रोटी खा रहा है।

See Snell's Teach Yourself Hindi (2000)
Section 6.3 page 79