1. Hindi 1: Lesson 2b

2. Activity: you will all get a card as you come in and should move round the room asking each other to identify the thing on your card your sentences should be on this model.

3. Adjectives
Adjectives are words that describe things, or other adjectives
In Hindi some adjectives, like काला kālā black, change to reflect the number (singular/plural) and gender of the things they describe.
In Hindi some adjectives, like लाल lāl red, don’t change to reflect number and gender, they can be called ‘invariable’.

5. काला
kālā
सफ़ेद
safed
लाल
lāl
पीला
pīlā
नीला
nīlā
हरा
harā

6. लड़का laṛkā

7. लड़के laṛke

8. लड़की laṛkī

10. आदमी ādmī

11. आदमी ādmī

12. औरत aurat

13. औरतें auratẽ

15. कुरसी kursī

18. किताब
kitāb

20. कुरता
kurtā

24. तकिया
takiyā

26. सेब seb

28. कितना kitnā how many?

29. कितना kitnā?
Your teacher(s) will demonstrate some possible questions and answers about the numbers of things/people in the room and their answers.
Then as pairs work out how to ask about the number of a range a things around you.
Then we will present at least one question and answer from most groups to the class.

30. मेरा merā mine etc.

31. मेरा कुरता
merā kurtā

32. मेरे कुरते
mere kurte

33. मेरी किताब
merī kitāb

34. मेरी किताबें
merī kitābẽ

35. काला
kālā
सफ़ेद
safed
लाल
lāl
गुलाबी
gulābī
पीला
pīlā
नीला
nīlā
हरा
harā
बैंगनी
baĩganī

36. Is that your?
Activity: ask the person next to you about something they have, point at a partner’s possession and have a conversation like that below.
Remember to make the word for your and my change to reflect the gender [and number] of the thing possessed.

37. यह मेरी घड़ी है। yah merī ghaṛī hai
Write down two sentences describing things that you have on the model of: यह मेरी घड़ी है। This is my watch. yah merī ghaṛī hai
Hand your sentences to your neighbour, they will then have to read out your sentence to the class, pointing to the thing and saying: वह उसकी घड़ी है That is his/her watch. etc. vah uskī ghaṛī hai