Main Hindi sikh rahi hoon

Although it's more than two years that my life is tied with India and I highlighted learning Hindi as top priority in my "to do list" , unfortunately due to busy schedule even at week-ends I couldn't do it properly till now. Also I ought to be honest and say that it comes from my laziness too. Anyway in the course of time while having my relationship with my sweetheart mainly in the net, as well as befriending more and more Indian relatives or friends of him, I managed learning some words sometimes even expressions in Hindi. Now with my poor vocabulary I somehow manage to speak to my sweetheart's mother who is the only member in his family not speaking English.  And whenever she asks me to learn Hindi asap, I say "Main thoda-thoda Hindi sikh rahi hoon"- I am learning Hindi little by little.

What we have now is:

Namaste / Namaskar/ Pranam - Greetings

Aap kaise hai? - How are you? (to elders)

Tum kaisi ho? - How are you?

Main thik hoon - I am ok

Main achcha / achchi hoon - I am fine

Achcha means good, fine. For masculine it ends with "a" , in feminine it ends with "i" - achchi hai.

Yeh bahot achcha hai - That's very good !

Mera dill - my heart

Meri zindagi - my life

Pati - husband

Patni / biwi - wife

Diwana/diwani - crazy

Main tumhara diwana hoon - I am crazy for you :)

Kya?  - What ?

Kya kar rahi ho? - what are you doing?

Kya hua ? - What happened? (the most frequently used expression by my sweetheart even when he knows or guesses what actually happened)

Kon hai? - who is that?

Kab? - when

Kahan? - where

Kitna? - how much

Kyon? - why  the reply usually strats with "kyon ki..." - because...

Phool- flower

Din - day

Raat -night

Pani - water

Nimbu pani - lemon water

Aaloo - potatoes

Dost - friend

Zaroor - of course, sure

Bilkul - exactly

Mujhe maloom hai - I know

Phir se - again

Sahi hai - that's right

Jao - go

So jao - go to sleep

And the crown of all the expressions I learnt  is the way I greet my sweetheart's Parents in their own native language - MAITHILI.

Gor lagai chhi - I am touching your feet

There are also many common words in Armenian and Hindi. My next post will be about those words.