![]() (voh pita rahega) = He/She/It will be drinking. (tum pite rahoge) = You will be drinking. (mai~ pita rahunga) = I will be drinking. Let's make the future continuous of the verb "pina" to make things clear:įuture Continuous of "Pina" (पीना = to drink) Verb Stem + TA / TE / TI + rahunga/rahega/rahenge/rahoge = Future Continuous Tense To build that tense use these endings: रहूंगा रहेगा रहेंगे रहोगे (rahunga/rahega/rahenge/rahoge) similarly as the forms for Future Imperfect together with the "conjugated" verb. वे पीएंगे (ve pienge) = They will drink.įor "I" use -unga, for "Tu" use "ega", for "Tum" use "oge", for "voh" use "ega" and for "ham/aap/ve" the plural form "enge".आप पीएंगे (aap pienge) = You will drink.वह पीएगा (voh piega) = He/She/It will drink.Let us conjugate a verb in the future tense, then I'll give the endings:įuture Imperfect of "Pina" ( पीना = to drink) The Future tense it a bit more complicated than the past for it has more verb-endings for person than those by the past tense. (mai~ roti kha rahi thi) = I was eating bread. (mai~ pani pi raha tha) = I was drinking water. (mai~ kitab padh raha tha) = I was reading a book. Verb Stem + रहा / रहे / रही (raha/rahe/rahi) + Past Tense of "Hona" (to be) = Past Continuous Tense It's the same as the present continous except that it's used the past tense of Hona: Next comes of course the past continous tense: (tum pani pite the) = You used to drink water. (mai~ pani pita tha) = I used to drink water. (larki khati thi) = The girl used to eat. In English it's best translated with the pattern "used to + verb": The past imperfect tense is used to tell about habitual actions in the past. Verb Stem + ता / ते / ती (TA/TE/TI) + Past Tense of "Hona" (to be) = Past Imperfect Tense (jahan dhua~ hai, vaha~ aag bhi hai) = Where there is a smoke, there is a fire too. Now as you know here/there/where (btw, there exists also another word for where = kaha~) I'll give you a Hindi proverb: (aap yaha~ the) = You (polite) were here OR You (plural) were here. Past of "hona" is even simplier than the present form: To build the past imperfect tense, we have first to learn the past tense of the "main" hindi verb: "to be" (Hona). I'll show you some of them (A little below you'll see the past of 'to be', which is needed to build the imperfect past tense, necessary to be able to say such phrases as "I've used to go. Note: For verbs, whose stem end in a vowel you have to add या/ये/यी (ya/ye/yi)Į.g. Just take the root of a verb and add -a, -e, or -i, respectively for Masculine Singular, Masculine Plurar and Feminine both - Singular and Plurar: Some of the examples below are incorrect for this reason and should be rewritten according to standard Hindi grammar and the "ne" construction.)īuilding past is easy. When forming the perfect tense (past) in Hindi, the verb will not always match the traditional subject of your sentence in gender/number (this depends on transitivity of the verb). (This section needs to be revised as it does not account for the distinction between intransitive and transitive verbs. The "raha hu~" for example is pronounced "rahu~", "raha hai" as "rahai". Sometimes in colloquial speech all is even shortened more. The verbs stem and raha/rahe/rahi are pronounced almost as one (at once), although they're written separately. (mai~ roti kha rahi hu~) = I'm eating bread. (mai~ pani pi raha hu~) = I'm drinking water. (mai~ kitab padh raha hu~) = I'm reading a book. ![]() So let's clear all that out with some examples. you're not reading it in the moment of speaking. So if you want to say that you "read" a book in the moment of speaking, you have to say "I am reading a book", not simply "I read a book", because the last could mean that you read a book in general, i.e. Verb Stem + रहा / / रही (rahae/they) + Present Tense of "Hona" (to be)įor those who don't like grammatical terms and don't know for sure what's "continuous tense", I'll tell that it's the same as the English verbs, ending in "-ing". ![]() We continue with some other tenses in Hindi:
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