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Lesson
15
Vocabulary
Character's
Names:
रानी
चाची
(aunt, specifically father's brother's
wife)
बातचीत
|
noun |
conversation |
बोलना
|
verb |
to
speak |
ख़ाली
|
adj. (doesn't
change) |
free,
empty |
मैंने /
मैं ने |
pronoun +
postposition |
I (as actor with
perfect form of transitive verb = "ergative
case") |
के बाद
|
postposition |
after |
सहेली
|
noun
f. |
girlfriend (but only
female friend of a female) |
समोसा
|
noun
m. |
samosa (a deep fried
vegetable or meat dumpling) |
बनाना
|
verb
(causative) |
to
make |
पैंतीस
|
number
|
thirty-five |
सीखना
|
verb |
to
learn |
सिखाना
|
verb
(causative) |
to
teach |
पढ़ना
|
verb |
to study
(intransitive), to read (transitive) |
पढ़ाना
|
verb
(causative) |
to
teach |
रसोई
|
noun
f. |
kitchen |
हरी
मिर्च
|
noun
f. |
green pepper (the
small, hot ones) |
प्याज़
|
noun
f. |
onion |
हरा
धनिया
|
noun
m. |
green coriander,
cilantro |
अदरक
|
noun
f. |
ginger |
चाक़ू
|
noun |
knife |
काटना
|
verb |
to
cut |
देसी
|
adj. (doesn't
change) |
Indian, South Asian
(literally "country") |
पकना
|
verb |
to cook
(intransitive) |
पकाना
|
verb
(causative) |
to cook
(transitive) |
इसी (=
इस + ही)
|
emphatic pronoun
(oblique) |
this very one
(oblique) |
इसी लिये
|
phrase |
For this very
reason..., That's why... |
ये रहे
|
phrase |
Here
are... |
इतना
|
comparative |
this
much |
हीरोइन
|
noun
f. |
heroine |
डान्स
करना
|
verb |
to
dance |
रंग
|
noun |
color |
रंग लेना
|
verb |
to take color, to
dye |
चुनरिया
|
noun |
scarf |
सजना =
सजनवा
|
noun
m. |
beloved |
तोरा
|
possessive
(dialect) |
your (folk dialect,
=तेरा) |
जिया
मेरा चाहे
|
phrase |
My heart
wants... |
होली
|
noun
f. |
Hindu
Holiday |
होली
खेलना
|
verb |
to play Holi, to
throw colored water and powders on each other |
ऐसे -
जैसे
|
comparative |
as,
like |
राधा
|
Proper
noun |
Radha, beloved of
Krishna |
कन्हैया
|
Proper noun
|
Epithet (nickname)
of Krishna |
फेंकना
|
verb |
to
throw |
के बिना
|
postposition |
without |
बिन
तुम्हारे=
तुम्हारे
बिन (बिना)
|
phrase |
without you
|
इतवार
|
noun |
Sunday |
सोमवार
|
noun |
Monday |
मंगलवार
|
noun |
Tuesday |
बुधवार
|
noun |
Wednesday |
बृहस्पतिवार
|
noun |
Thursday |
शुक्रवार
|
noun |
Friday |
शनिवार
|
noun |
Saturday |
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