A Door Into Hindi: Lesson 5

3.Oblique of adjectives and possessives

4.Oblique of pronouns

Culture Notes

Supplemental Materials

Devanagari Writing System

Digital Dictionaries

Other Resources

5.4	Oblique of pronouns

Although in English there is no oblique case for nouns, there is for pronouns. For example we don't say "to I", we say "to me", or we don't say "from we", we say "from us."

Memorize the oblique pronouns in Hindi, shown below with the postposition से (from):

	Singular	Plural
1^st person	मुझसे	हमसे
2^nd person (familiar)	तुझसे	तुमसे
2^nd person (polite)	-----	आपसे
3^rd person (far)	उससे	उनसे
3^rd person (near)	इससे	इनसे
3^rd person (unknown)	िकसीसे	-----
3^rd person (question)	िकससे	िकनसे

See Snell's Teach Yourself Hindi (2000)
Section 3.4 page 46