In Hindi, unlike in English, all nouns have genders, either masculine or feminine.

Similarly, а¤®аҐ€а¤‚ а¤…а¤љаҐЌа¤›а¤ѕ а¤№аҐ‚а¤Ѓ, I am fine becomes 'I fine am'. For example, you would say а¤†а¤Є а¤•аҐ€а¤ёаҐ‡ а¤№аҐ€а¤‚ for How are you?, which, translated word for word becomes 'You how are'. Verbs always go to the end of sentences in Hindi and auxiliary verbs go at the very end of a sentence.

However, sentence structure is different from English. The other good news is that Hindi doesn't have articles (words for 'the' or 'a'). In Hindi, unlike in European languages, words are written as they are pronounced because each character has a different sound. Just like European languages, Hindi is written from left to right. Hindi is also spoken in some countries outside India, such as in Mauritius, Fiji, Suriname, Guyana, Trinidad & Tobago and Nepal. It's widely understood in several other states of India. Hindi is the main language of Indian states of Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and the capital Delhi in North India Bihar and Jharkhand in Eastern India Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh in Central India and Rajasthan in West India. There are several regional languages in India, such as Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Oriya, Gujarati, Marathi, Punjabi and Assamese, but Hindi is used by the largest number of people as their first language. It's the official language of India, English being the other official language. Hindi is one of the languages spoken in India. Nearly 425 million people speak Hindi as a first language and around 120 million as a second language. Persian speaking Turks who invaded Punjab and Gangetic plains in the early 11th century named the language of the region Hindi, 'language of the land of the Indus River'. Hindi got its name from the Persian word Hind, meaning 'land of the Indus River'.

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