Can you recall what the Oblique Case of a noun is in Hindi? Remember, it’s the special case for nouns that we must use when we are using a postposition. Postpositions are words like on, in, to etc and we covered them in Lesson #50 (You might want to revise over that if you can’t remember anything) 

In Lesson #48 we learnt how we change nouns into this Oblique Case, लड़के larke - boys, for example, becomes लड़कों larkon in the oblique. So we would say; लड़कों को larkon ko - to the boys. 

And so today we’re going to begin to learn how to use Pronouns in the oblique case. This is going to be really important for us because many common sentence structures use the pronoun in the oblique case! You don’t really need to memorise these just yet, but try and familiarise yourself with them, so that you are ready for when we start using them in the next few lessons.  

Anyway here goes; 

First Person Singular

मुझ   mujh is the oblique form of  मैं  main -  I

First Person Plural 

हम   ham - we, remains the same in the oblique. 

Second Person Singular 

तुझ   tujh is the oblique form of  तू  too -  You (Very Informal) 

Second Person Plural

तुम   tum - You (Informal), remains the same in the oblique. 

आप  aap  You (Formal), remains the same in the oblique. 

Third Person Singular

इस   is is the oblique form of  यह  yeh -  He / She / It / That (Close) 

उस   us is the oblique form of  वह  voh -  He / She / It / That (Far) 

Third Person Plural

इन   in is the oblique form of  ये  ye -  They / Those (Close) 

उन   un is the oblique form of  वे  ve -  They / Those (Far) 

Do you recognise these last four, the third person oblique pronouns, from anywhere? Yeah that’s right, we saw them in Lesson #37 Possessive Pronouns where they were combine with का kaa, the postposition that shows possession. 

It might seem a bit pointless learning this new oblique form of these pronouns without any examples, but don’t worry I will be showing you a whole load of examples and uses in the next few lessons, you’ll see how important they are and how they really expand your Hindi knowledge!  

Back to Beginner’s Grammar.