Author: R S McGregor
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Year: 2007
Language: English
Pages: 294
ISBN/UPC (if available): 978-0-19-564911-6
Description
This book has a twofold purpose: to provide a concise presentation of the essential grammar of modern Hindi which brings beginners to the point where they can read modern prose and to serve as a reference for those consolidating their grasp of the language.
People planning to visit India for business or pleasure will also find the book very useful: colloquial vocabulary and style receive as much detailed attention as the more formal written style. The material is presented in roman transliteration as well as in the Hindi script.
This is a completely revised edition: the exercises have been updated to provide a wider coverage of grammar and ;modern usage, and a new series of listening and reading ex exercises presented in dialogue form has been incorporated. Other additions include a section in the Introduction illustrating the formation of Hindi script characters in handwriting, a detailed grammatical index and an updated list of further readings.
Contents
Abbreviations
INTRODUCTION
Modern standard Hindi, and its loanwords
The sound system of Hindi
The Script
Script exercise
The Formation of characters in handwriting
LESSONS AND EXERCISES
CHAPTER I
Nouns; postpositions; simple sentences; order of words
CHAPTER II
Adjectives; demonstrative pronouns; the postposition ka
CHAPTER III
Personal pronouns; honorific usages
Listening and reading exercise I
CHAPTER IV
Verb structure and concord; present, past, and future tense forms of hona; regular conjugational patterns; verbal concord with composite subjects; the postposition se; some expressions of motion
CHAPTER V
Regular conjugational patterns (contd.); the emphatic enclitics hi, bhi
CHAPTER VI
Future uses of se, mem, par; the postposition tak; some adverbial expressions; compound postpositions; some expressions of wishing
Listening and reading exercise II
CHAPTER VII
Absolutives; imperative forms
CHAPTER VIII
The indefinite pronouns and adjective kuch and koi; the interrogative pronouns and adjectives kaun and kya; the relative pronoun and adjective jo
CHAPTER IX
The postposition ko; the postposition ke pas; the postposition ka (Contd.)
Listening and reading exercise III
CHAPTER X
The Possessive adjective apna; verbal expression with karna and hona
CHAPTER XI
Numerals; time
CHAPTER XII
Construction with the postposition ne
Listening and reading exercise IV
CHAPTER XIII
The form cahie; the verb parna and hona expressive of obligation
CHAPTER XIV
Relative-correlative construction
CHAPTER XV
The Verbs sakna; cukna; milna
Listening and reading exercise V
CHAPTER XVI
Comparison; comparative and other expressions with Zyada and adhik; reports of statements and questions; indirect commands
CHAPTER XVII
Compound verbs
CHAPTER XVIII
Groups of verbs of related stem; causative verbs
Listening and reading exercise VI
CHAPTER XIX
Passive forms; conjunt verbs not involving karna, hona; some uses of infinitives
CHAPTER XX
Subordinate conjunctions and clauses
CHAPTER XXI
Uses of the subjective; the verb lagna; the verbs dena and pana with preceding oblique case infinitives
Listening and reading exercise VII
CHAPTER XXII
Composite verbal expressions with rahna, jana (Contd.), karna, cahna
CHAPTER XXIII
Reduplicative expressions; the conjunction to; the emphatic enclitic hi (contd.)
CHAPTER XXIV
The adjectival particle sa; inverted compound postpositions
Listening and reading exercise VIII
CHAPTER XXV
Reflexive pronouns; the formative element vala
CHAPTER XXVI
Non-finite participial construction
SUPPLEMENTS
ò Further aspects of the grammar of nominal forms
ò Further aspects of the grammar of verbs
ò Further aspects of the grammar of postpositions, adverbs, and
conjunctions
ò Sandhi
ò Formation of words
ò Compounding of words
Reading Passages
Composition Passages
Key to Exercises
Key to Listening and Reading Exercises
Fair Versions of Composition Passages
Grammatical Index
Further Reading
Vocabularies