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  2. List of English words of Hindi or Urdu origin - Wikipedia

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    from Hindi पश्मीना, Urdu پشمينه, ultimately from Persian پشمينه. Punch from Hindi and Urdu panch پانچ, meaning "five". The drink was originally made with five ingredients: alcohol, sugar, lemon, water, and tea or spices. [15] [16] The original drink was named paantsch. Pundit

  3. Odia grammar - Wikipedia

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    When a noun is enumerated, it takes a group of morphemes called classifiers. When the number denotes 'one', then the structure of the phrase: classifier-numeral noun; Eg- ଜଣେ ପିଲା – one child When the numeral is more than 'one', then the structure is: numeral classifier noun; Eg- ଦୁଇ ଜଣ ପିଲା – two children

  4. Hindustani grammar - Wikipedia

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    Unlike English and many other Indo-European languages, Hindustani does not have a verb which uniquely translate to "to have" of English. Possession is reflected in Hindustani by the genitive marker kā (inflected appropriately) or the postposition ke pās ("near") and the verb honā .

  5. Hindustani verbs - Wikipedia

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    Hindustani is extremely rich in complex verbs formed by the combinations of noun/adjective and a verb. Complex verbs are of two types: transitive and intransitive. [3]The transitive verbs are obtained by combining nouns/adjectives with verbs such as karnā 'to do', lenā 'to take', denā 'to give', jītnā 'to win' etc.

  6. Hindustani declension - Wikipedia

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    Hindi-Urdu, also known as Hindustani, has three noun cases (nominative, oblique, and vocative) [1] [2] and five pronoun cases (nominative, accusative, dative, genitive, and oblique). The oblique case in pronouns has three subdivisions: Regular, Ergative, and Genitive.

  7. Light verb - Wikipedia

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    Light verbs in Hindi–Urdu can combine with another verb, an adjective, adverb or even a borrowed English verb or noun. [8] The light verb loses its own independent meaning and instead "lends a certain shade of meaning" [9] to the main or stem verb, which "comprises the lexical core of the compound". [10]

  8. Grammatical case - Wikipedia

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    For example, the English prepositional phrase with (his) foot (as in "John kicked the ball with his foot") might be rendered in Russian using a single noun in the instrumental case, or in Ancient Greek as τῷ ποδί (tôi podí, meaning "the foot") with both words (the definite article, and the noun πούς (poús) "foot") changing to ...

  9. Pashto grammar - Wikipedia

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    Meaning نا: a negative prefix to nouns or particles having the same meaning as English "un, in, dis, non" etc. بې: this means "without". When prefixed to words it is equivalent to the English "dis, less" etc. Considered a preposition. بيا: this means again. When prefixed to words it is equivalent to English "re" هم: this means same ...