In today’s lesson we’re simply going to see a whole list of common Hindi Verbs so that we can expand our vocabulary and talk about a wider range of activities. It’s really important when learning any language to keep learning more and more new words. 

If you remember, Verbs are simply ‘doing’ or 'being’ words that show something is happening. We’ve already learnt a lot about Verbs in Hindi, you can read back over this in the Beginner’s Section by clicking on any of the lessons about Verbs! 

I’ve listed these in Hindi alphabetical order, this takes some getting used to but it’s simply the order that we learnt the letters in; vowels come first, then the consonants by their groups. Some of these we have already seen and so you should be familiar with them. 

I don’t recommend you waste hours learning these verbs, instead I recommend reading through this list several times and getting familiar with them. I’ll be using all of these in future lessons so that will give you some practice in using them.

Key - Verb transliteration translation (notes, verbs that say 'irregular’ do not follow the usual rules and will be covered in detail later)

आना    aanaa     to come

उठना    uthnaa    to rise

उड़ना    urnaa     to fly

करना    karnaa    to do (used in many compound verbs, see 'to love’ and 'to clean’ below for example) 

कहना    kahnaa     to speak / to say

खाना    khaanaa     to eat (also the noun 'food’ m)

गाना     gaanaa     to sing (also the noun 'song’ m) 

चलना    calnaa     to walk / to move

चाहना    caahnaa     to want

चिल्लाना   cillaanaa   to shout

छूना    choonaa     to touch / to feel

जलाना    jalaanaa     to burn

जानना    jaannaa     to know

जाना    jaanaa     to go (irregular in past tense) 

तैरना    tairnaa     to swim

देखना    dekhnaa     to look / to see

देना    denaa    to give (irregular) 

धोना   dhonaa     to wash

नाचना   naacnaa     to dance

पढ़ना   parhnaa     to read / to study

पीना   peenaa     to drink / to smoke (cigarettes)

प्यार करना   pyaar karnaa   to love (see Lesson #29)

बजना   bajnaa     to ring / to chime

बनाना   banaanaa     to make / to build 

बोलना   bolnaa     to speak

रहना   rahnaa     to stay / to live

लिखना   likhnaa     to write

लेना  lenaa     to take / to receive (irregular) 

साफ़ करना   saaf karnaa     to clean

सीखना   seekhnaa     to learn

सोना   sonaa     to sleep

होना   honaa     to be (irregular, see Lesson #22 for present tense, Lesson #55 for future)

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