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Exercise on second person pronoun choice.

(adapted from Chapter One of  Hindi Structures.)

      Choose the second person pronoun that seems most appropriate to you and inflect the verb accordingly.  Caution: second person pronoun choice is not always easy, even for native speakers of Hindi-Urdu.  In discussing some of these choices you should expect differences of opinion.

   1.  p:eNRt:j:i.  Vy:a _____ hm:arð y:haú ram:ay:N: p:`n:ð Aa _____ ?

   2.  Ab:ð s:al:ð !   Vy:a rast:a __ (your) __ b:ap: ka hò ?  dðK:t:a hÜú _____ m:ØJ:ð kós:ð raðk- ____ !
      ('will stop')

   3.  RÎÔaEv:r !  ____ m:ØJ:ð ekD:r l:ð j:a rh- ____   h- ____ ?         ('are taking')

   4.  O B:g:v:an: ! /  O rb: !   ____   s:v:üS:eVt:m:an: h- ____  .  m:ØJ:ð Es: s:økX s:ð b:c:a l:- ____ !

   5.  haú b:t:a- ____ ,  s:ahb:.   ____   khaú j:an:a c:aht:- ____  h- ____ ?

   6.  eRmp:l: Rael:þg: !  p:tn:i m:ay:kñ g:I hò.  j:ldi em:l:n:ð Aa- ____ !

   7.  m:ØJ:ð p:c:as: p:òs:ðv:al:ð t:in: eXkX Aaòr c:ar el:fafñ dð d- ____  .

   8.  b:ab:Üj:i.   ____   hm:arð el:y:ð Vy:a b:n:a rh- ____  h- ____ ?         ('are making')

   9.  b:ðXi.  En: s:ahb: kñ el:O c:ay: l:a- ____ .         ('bring')

 10 .  s:rdarj:i .  Enj:n: Q:rab: hò.   ____   kb: t:k Yik kr s:k- ____ ?         ('will be able')

Key.

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Keyed in and posted 6 Sept 2001.