Master grammar with comprehensive explanations and examples
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Devanagari Vowels
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I can recognize and read all 11 Hindi vowels
I can recognize all 33 Hindi consonants and understand aspiration
I can read conjuncts and understand nasalization marks
I can form basic Hindi sentences in SOV order
Can make negative statements and prohibitions
Can ask and understand basic questions
Can connect ideas using basic Hindi conjunctions for addition, contrast, alternatives, and cause/result
I can use Hindi pronouns with appropriate formality
Can express possession using Hindi possessive pronouns with correct gender/number agreement
I can conjugate होना and form negative sentences
Can describe habitual actions and daily routines
Can narrate past events using simple past with intransitive verbs
Can form transitive past tense sentences with correct ने marking and object agreement
Can give commands and make requests at appropriate politeness levels
Can describe actions happening right now using the progressive tense with correct gender agreement
Can express future plans and intentions using the Hindi future tense with correct person/gender suffixes
Can express wants and abilities using चाहना and सकना with correct verb forms
Can express physical sensations, preferences, and knowledge using dative-subject constructions
I can apply oblique case to nouns and adjectives
I can express possession with correct gender agreement
I can use में/पर for location and apply oblique case
Can use को for indirect objects, experiencer constructions, and specific direct objects
Can express origin, instrument, and comparison using से
Can use common compound postpositions to express purpose, accompaniment, time sequence, and topic
Can use adjectives with correct gender/number agreement
Can use Hindi numbers 1-100 in everyday contexts
Can tell time, name days of the week, and use कल/आज/परसों correctly with appropriate tense
Can use common Hindi adverbs of place, time, manner, and degree in correct sentence position
Can choose the appropriate level of formality (तू/तुम/आप) and use जी to show respect
I can say that something has already happened
I can chain two actions in one sentence
I can recognise a compound verb and its shading
I can say that I had something done
I can form a passive sentence
I can tell apart advice, intention and unavoidable obligation
I can describe someone by what they are doing or what has been done to them
I can express possibility, purpose and polite hesitation
I can choose between the verb that happens and the verb that is done
I can use lagna for seeming, for duration and for starting to do something
I can tell apart being something, becoming something and something being generally so
I can build a relative clause with its correlative
I can report what somebody said without changing their tense
I can say when, as soon as, until and after something happened
I can say what would have happened if things had gone differently
I can place hi, bhi and to correctly and hear what they add
I can link two sentences to show result, contrast or an alternative
I can use reduplication for gradualness, distribution and vagueness
I can recognise a word I have not met from the suffix on it
I can compare two things and name the best of a group
I can say some, any, all, every and none
I can give an order, a floor number and a quantity with a fraction in it
I can decide whether a direct object needs ko
I can form the plural of any noun, direct or oblique
I can address a stranger, a shopkeeper and an elder correctly
I can build and understand verbs made of a noun plus karna or hona
I can distinguish being able to do something from managing to do it
I can say that an action continued or kept being repeated
I can say 'the moment something happened' without a full clause
I can use the experiencer pattern for remembering, understanding and liking
I can build a relative clause where the relative word is not the subject
I can move a phrase for emphasis without breaking the sentence
I can report an instruction somebody gave me
I can choose the right negative for a statement, a clause and a command
I can say how long something lasted and how far it extended
I can recognise the register of a word and choose one that fits the situation
I can understand and use common body-part idioms
I can speak about and to an elder with the right agreement throughout
I can read and write large numbers the way they appear in India
I can say whatever, whenever and wherever
I can read a notice or an article and follow its postpositions
I can apply ne correctly including its exceptions
I can place any Hindi verb form in the tense and aspect grid
I can use the right postposition with a verb I have just learned
I can grade how certain I am about something
I can build a sentence with two or more subordinate clauses
I can replace a jo clause with a participial phrase
I can foreground exactly the element I mean
I can read an official notice and write a simple application
Best after: Registers: Sanskritic and Perso-Arabic Vocabulary
I can mix English into Hindi the way an urban speaker does
Best after: Registers: Sanskritic and Perso-Arabic Vocabulary
I can structure a paragraph so a reader can follow it
I can tell standard Hindi from a regional variety and follow the difference
Best after: Registers: Sanskritic and Perso-Arabic Vocabulary
I can soften, confirm and emphasise the way a native speaker does
I can break a long compound into its parts and guess its meaning
I can build an abstract noun from an adjective or a verb
I can resolve an agreement conflict correctly
I can recognise a common proverb and understand what it is being used to say
I can recognise Persian formations and read them correctly
Best after: Registers: Sanskritic and Perso-Arabic Vocabulary
I can make a request, refuse and disagree while staying polite
I can read a government circular or an academic paper in Hindi
I can read a Hindi newspaper report and recognise what is asserted and what is attributed
I can recognise the standard figures and use a few in my own writing
I can follow a legal notice or an administrative order
I can follow a film song or a poem without treating its grammar as errors
Best after: Registers: Sanskritic and Perso-Arabic Vocabulary
I can audit my own Hindi for the errors my first language causes
I can follow a joke or a pun and see why it works
Best after: Registers: Sanskritic and Perso-Arabic Vocabulary
I can understand rapid speech where much is left unsaid
I can recognise a classical allusion and understand what it implies
I can open a formal letter or address an audience appropriately
I can choose the aspect that carries the nuance I mean
I can explain why Hindi has the vocabulary layers it has
Best after: Registers: Sanskritic and Perso-Arabic Vocabulary
I can translate a Russian paragraph into Hindi without importing its syntax
I can describe the relationship between Hindi and Urdu accurately
Best after: Registers: Sanskritic and Perso-Arabic Vocabulary
I can write a structured argument in academic Hindi
I can say the same thing at any register the situation calls for
I can discuss a Hindi text using the standard critical vocabulary
I can discuss Hindi's official position without misstating it
I can write a short narrative that reads as Hindi rather than as translation
I can revise my own Hindi systematically rather than by feel
I can choose between near-synonyms by register and collocation
Best after: Registers: Sanskritic and Perso-Arabic Vocabulary
I can hear a soft refusal and a non-committal answer for what they are