Hindi verbs

Hindi verbs are highly inflected in comparison to English, but markedly simple in comparison to Sanskrit, from which Hindi has inherited its verbal conjugation system (through Prakrit). Verbs in Hindi conjugate according to mood, tense, person and number. Aspect-marking participles in Hindi mark the aspect. Gender is not distinct in the present tense of indicative mood, however, all the participle form of verbs agree with the gender and number of the subject. Verbs in Hindi agree with the gender of the subject or the object depending on whether the subject pronoun is in the dative or ergative case (agrees with the object) or the nominative case (agrees with the subject).^[1]

Overview

Verbs

In Hindi, all verbs have a base form called the infinitive which is marked by the -nā ending of verbs.^[2] Some of the most common verbs are: honā (to be), karnā (to do), rêhnā (to stay), calnā (to walk), bolnā (to speak).

Complex verbs

Hindi is extremely rich in complex verbs which are 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.
• The intransitive verbs are formed with the help of verbs such as honā ‘to be/happen’, lagnā ‘to feel’, ānā ‘to come’ etc.

Complex verbs (Complex predicates) are of the following three combinations:

1. Noun + Verb
2. Adjective + Verb
3. Verb + Verb

where the noun, adjective or the first verb contributes the semantic content and the verb or second verb accounts for the syntactic information of the construction. Noun/adjective and verb combinations are termed conjunct verbs, as in (1) and (2) in the examples below whereas the combinations of two verbs are called compound verbs, as in the example (3) below:

NOUN + VERB
(1)	shīlā-nē sheela:FEM.SG-ERG kām work:MASC.SG-NOM kiyā. do.PRF.MASC.SG shīlā-nē kām kiyā. sheela:FEM.SG-ERG work:MASC.SG-NOM do.PRF.MASC.SG 'Sheela did the work'
ADJECTIVE + VERB
(2)	shīlā-nē sheela:FEM.SG-ERG kamrā room:MASC.SG-NOM sāf clean kiyā. do.PRF.MASC.SG shīlā-nē kamrā sāf kiyā. sheela:FEM.SG-ERG room:MASC.SG-NOM clean do.PRF.MASC.SG 'Sheela cleaned the room'
VERB + VERB
(3)	shīlā-nē sheela:FEM.SG-ERG sach truth:MASC.SG-NOM bol say diyā. give.PRF.MASC.SG shīlā-nē sach bol diyā. sheela:FEM.SG-ERG truth:MASC.SG-NOM say give.PRF.MASC.SG 'Sheela told the truth.'

In the above examples, there are Hindi verbal constructions which can be grouped into two categories of complex verbs in Hindi, namely, conjunct verbs and compound verbs.^[3] (1) and (2) are examples of conjunct verbs since in (1) we find a noun kām ‘work’ and a perfective form of the verb karnā, ‘do’ whereas in (2) the verbal predicate exhibits a complex construction made of two elements, namely an adjective sāf ‘clean’ plus a verb karnā, ‘do’. The example in (3), on the other hand, is considered be compound verbs since the predicates exhibits two or more than two verbal elements, bol ‘tell’, denā ‘give’, and diyā 'gave'.

Aspects

There are three primary grammatical aspects in Hindi: habitual aspect, perfective aspect and progressive aspect.^[4] Periphrastic Hindi verb forms consist of two elements, the first of these two elements is the aspect marker and the second element is the tense-mood marker.^[4] These three aspects are formed from their participle forms being used with the copula verb (honā "to be") of Hindi. However, the primary participles which mark the aspects can be modified periphrastically by adding auxiliary participles constructed from auxiliary verbs of Hindi such as rêhnā (to stay/remain), ānā (to come), jānā (to go) after the primary participle to add a nuance to the aspect.^[5][6]

Habitual aspect

The habitual aspect in Hindi is marked using the habitual participle, which is constructed by taking the verb root and suffixing -tā to it. It declines according to gender and number of the subject asː -tā, -te, -tī, -tī̃ for masculine singular, masculine plural, feminine singular, feminine plural, respectively.

Perfective aspect

The perfective aspect in Hindi is marked using the perfective participle, which is constructed by taking the verb root and suffixing -ā to it. If the verb root ends in a vowel, then -yā is suffixed to the verb root instead. It declines according to gender and number of the subject asː -(y)ā, -(y)e, -(y)ī, -(y)ī̃ for masculine singular, masculine plural, feminine singular, feminine plural, respectively.

Progressive aspect

Hindi has distinct constructions to convey progressive and continuous actions. Progressive actions are marked through the progressive aspect participle rahā used along with the verb root, while the continuous action is conveyed through the perfective adjectival participle which is constructed by conjugating the verb into its perfective aspect participle and combining it with the perfective aspect participle of the verb honā (to be), which is huā.^[4] The verbs in the examples 1a and 2a below are in the progressive aspect while in 1b and 2b the verbs are in their perfective adjectival participle form.

			Hindi			Translation
1a			baiṭh rahā hai			He is sitting. (nuance: he is in the process of sitting)
1b			baiṭhā huā hai			He is sitting. (nuance: he is already sitting)
2a			śarṭ pêhên rahī hū̃			I am wearing a shirt. (nuance: I am in the process of wearing a shirt)
2b			śarṭ pêhnī huī hū̃			I am wearing a shirt. (nuance: I am already wearing a shirt)

Moods

There are five grammatical moods which the three aspects of Hindi can be put into.^[1][7] Moods in Hindi are mentioned below:

1. Indicative Mood
2. Presumptive Mood
3. Subjunctive Mood
   • Regular Subjunctive
     • Present Subjunctive
     • Future Subjunctive
   • Perfective Subjunctive^[4]
     • Future Subjunctive
4. Contrafactual Mood
   • Conditional
   • Past Subjunctive
5. Imperative Mood
   • Present Imperative
   • Future Imperative^[8]

Notes:

• When making an if-clause, the conditional mood is used in both apodosis and the protasis unlike other languages such as the ones in the Romance branch which make use of unique past-subjunctive and conditional verb forms in the apodosis and the protasis, respectively.^[9]
• The regular future subjunctive is replaced by the perfective future subjunctive when an if-clause or a relative clause is used.

Set of Related Verbs

Verbs are morphologically contrastive in Hindi, leading to the existence of related verb sets divisible along such lines. While the derivation of different verb forms shows patterns, it does reach a level of variegation so as to make it somewhat difficult to outline all encompassing rules. Furthermore, some verb sets may have as many as four to five distinct members; also, the meaning of certain members of given sets may be idiosyncratic.^[10] These below are the verb forms that a verb in Hindi can have —

1. Intransitive
   1. Involitional — these are actions that cannot be done intentionally.
      1. Dative — these involitional verbs require the subject to be in the dative case.^[11]
      2. Non-dative — these verbs require the subject to be in the nominative case.
   2. Volitional — these are actions that can be intentionally done.^[12]
      1. Ergative — these verbs require the subject to be in the ergative case in when the verb is in the perfective aspect.̟
      2. Non-ergative — these verbs always require the subject to be in the nominative case even when the verb is in perfective aspect.
2. Transitive
   1. Direct — the subject itself experiences the action but the subject and the object are not the same
   2. Indirect — the subject imparts the action onto the object, the object is the experiencer of the action by the usually translated into English as "to make (someone/something) verb"
   3. Reflexive — the verb does action on the subject itself, the doer and experiencer of the action is the same subject
   4. Causative — the subject causes the action to happen

Starting from direct transitive verb forms, the other verb stems i.e., intransitive, causative, reflexive, indirect stems are produced according to these following (not exhaustive) assorted rules —

1. Root vowel changeː
   • a → ā
   • u / ū → o
   • i / ī → e
2. Sometimes the root vowel change accompanies the root's final consonant changeː
   • k → c
   • ṭ → r̥
   • l → Ø
3. Suffixation of -ā to form the indirect or reflexive formː
   • Root vowel changeː ū/o → u; e/ai/ā/ī → i
   • Insertion of semivowel l between such vowel-terminating stems
4. Suffixation of -vā (in place of -ā where it would occur) to form the causative verb stem

The meaning each verb in the verb set has is constructed from the direct form of the verb, for example: dekhnā (to see), dikhnā (to be seen), dikhānā (to make someone see; to show), dikhvānā (to cause to see). The table below shows some verbs and its verb set.^[13]

Set of related verbs
English verbs	Intransitive				Transitive
	involitional		volitional		direct	indirect	reflexive	causative
	non-dative	dative	non-ergative	ergative
be	honā	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
happen	—	honā						hovānā
do	—	—	—	—	karnā	karānā	—	karvānā
fall	girnā	—	—	—	—	girānā	—	girvānā
prepare	bannā	—	—	—	—	banānā	—	banvānā
send	bhijnā	—	—	—	bhejnā	—	bhejānā	bhijvānā
dance	nacnā	—	—	nācnā	—	nacānā	—	nacvānā
be found	milnā	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
unite	—					milānā		milvānā
receive	—	milnā				—		milvānā
open	khulnā	—	—	—	kholnā	—	khulānā	khulvānā
							kholānā	kholvānā
learn	—	—	—	—	sīkhnā	sikhānā	—	sikhvānā
eat	—	—	—	—	khānā	khilānā	—	khilvānā
come	—	—	anā	—	—	—	—	—
to know how to		anā	—
drink	—	—	—	—	pīnā	pilānā	—	pilvānā
sell	biknā	—	—	—	becnā	—	becānā	bikvānā
see	—	dikhnā	—	—	dekhnā	dikhānā	—	dikhvānā
look like	lagnā	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
touch, stick (to)	—		lagnā			lagānā		lagvānā
feel, feel like		lagnā	—
tell	—	—	—	kêhnā	—	—	kêhlānā	kêhêlvānā
say	—	—	—	bolnā	—	bulānā	—	bulvānā
spin	ghumnā	—	ghūmnā	—	—	ghumānā	—	ghumvānā
travel around	—	—	—	—	ghūmnā		—
lie down	—	—	leṭnā	—	—	leṭānā	—	leṭvānā
sit	biṭhnā	—	baiṭhnā	—	—	baiṭhānā	—	baiṭhvānā
walk	—	—	calnā	—	—	calānā	—	calvātā
move			—	calnā
be okay with		calnā		—
sleep	sutnā	—	sonā	—	—	sulānā	—	sulvānā
wash, clean	dhulnā	—	—	—	dhonā	—	dhulānā	dhulvānā
break	ṭūṭnā	—	—	—	tor̥nā	—	tur̥ānā	tur̥vānā
die	marnā	—	—	—	mārnā	—	marānā	marvānā
move, shake	hilnā	—	—	—	hilānā	—	—	hilvānā
understand	—	—	—	samajhnā	—	samjhānā	—	samajhvānā
spread out	bichnā	—	—	—	—	bichānā	—	bichvānā
friction, rub	—	—	—	—	ghisnā	—	—	ghisvānā
wear out	ghisnā	—			—		ghisānā
ashtonish	ca͠uknā	—	—	—	—	ca͠ukānā	—	ca͠ukvānā
tear	phaṭnā	—	—	—	phār̥nā	—	phar̥ānā	phar̥vānā
blast, shatter	phūṭnā, phaṭnā	—	—	—	phor̥nā	—	phor̥ānā	phor̥vānā
beat	piṭ	—	—	—	pīṭnā	—	piṭānā	piṭvānā
cough	—	—	—	khā̃snā	—	—	—	khãsvānā
sneeze	—	—	—	chī̃kna	—	—	chĩkāna	chī̃kvāna
bathe	—	—	—	nahānā	—	nêhlānā	nêhêlnā	nêhêlvānā
shout	—	—	—	cillānā	—	—	—	cilvānā
scream	—	—	—	cīkhna	—	—	cikhānā	cīkhvānā
digest	pacnā	—		—	—	pacānā	—	pacvānā
play	—	—	—	—	khelnā	khelānā	—	khelvānā
know	—	—	—	jānnā	—	—	—	janvānā
sing	—	—	—	gānā	—	—	—	gavānā
fry	—	—	—	—	talnā	—	talānā	talvānā
laugh	—	—	hãsnā	—	—	hãsānā	—	hãsvānā

Verb Conjugations

There are four distinguished conjugation sets in Hindi.^[4] The first person [1P] singular pronoun mãĩ, the second person [2P] singular intimate pronoun tū, the 2P plural familiar pronoun tum, and the 2P plural formal pronoun āp. The 1P plural pronoun ham and the 3P plural conjugations are the same as the conjugations of āp, and the 3P singular conjugations are the same as that of 2P singular pronoun tū. Hindi does not have 3P personal pronouns and instead the demonstrative pronouns (ye "this/these", vo "that/those") double as the 3P personal pronouns when they lack a noun argument.

There are very few irregular verbs in Hindi. There are three types of irregularities that Hindi verbs haveː

1. Irregular indicative perfect conjugationsː
   • honā - to be; karnā - to do; denā - to give; lenā - to take; pīnā - to drink; jānā - to go
2. Irregular subjunctive conjugationsː
   • honā - to be; lenā - to take; denā - to give; pīnā - to drink; jīnā - to live
3. Irregular imperative conjugationsː
   • lēnā - to take; dēnā - to give; pīnā - to drink; jīnā - to live

Subjunctive mood conjugations

Subjunctive mood in Hindi can be put into 2 tenses, the present and future tense. The only verb in Hindi that has both the present and future subjunctive conjugations is the verb honā "to be" while all the other verbs only have the future subjunctive conjugations.

Present regular subjunctive

The present subjunctive conjugations for the verb honā "to be" are mentioned below. Present subjunctive conjugations of honā "to be" act as copulas that mark present subjunctive when used with aspectual participles.

mood	tense	gender	ma͠i	tū	tum	āp
subjunctive	present	♂ & ♀	hū̃	ho		hõ

Future regular subjunctive

The future subjunctive forms are constructed the following way by adding the conjugational suffixes to the verb root. The future subjunctive conjugations for the regular verb bolnā "to speak" (the verb root is bol-) is shown below. Future subjunctive conjugations of honā "to be" and rêhnā "to stay" act as copulas that mark future subjunctive when used with aspectual participles.^[4]

mood	tense	gender	ma͠i	tū	tum	āp
subjunctive	future	♂ & ♀	-ū̃	-e	-o	-ẽ
		♂ & ♀	bolū̃	bole	bolo	bolẽ

There are a couple of verbs with irregular future subjunctive forms, they are mentioned below. Every one-syllabled verb root such as in pīnā "to drink", jīnā "to live" and sīnā "to sew" etc. change their long vowel ī to short vowel i when conjugated into future subjunctive.

mood	tense	gender	verb	regular stem	irregular stem	ma͠i	tū	tum	āp
subjunctive	future	♂ & ♀	lenā "to take"	le-	l-	lū̃	le	lo	lẽ
		♂ & ♀	denā "to give"	de-	d-	dū̃	de	do	dẽ
		♂ & ♀	pīnā "to drink"	pī-	pi-	piyū̃	piye	piyo	piyẽ

Future perfective subjunctive

(The conjugations for future perfective subjunctive are the same as past perfect conjugations and they are discussed in the past perfect section below)

There are two future subjunctive moods in Hindi, first the regular subjunctive and the second, the perfective subjunctive which superficially has the same form as the perfect past forms of verbs but still expresses future events, it is only used with if clauses and relative clauses. In a semantic analysis, this use of the perfective aspect marker would not be considered perfective, since it is more closely related to subjunctive usage. Only the superficial form is identical to that of the perfective.^[4] This usage of perfective past as a future subjunctive is especially common colloquially; by describing the future action with a perfective verb and so stressing its completion.^[14]

Regular and perfective subjunctive usage

The regular subjunctive when used implies that the event in question is not envisaged as definitely, but does not at all imply that it is unlikely to come about. It also expresses desire or wish.

1. āp cāhẽ to ma͠i āpse hindi bolū̃gā. — "If you like, I'll speak Hindi with you".
2. acchā rahegā agar āp āyẽ — It'll be better if you come.
3. vo cāhtī hai ki ma͠i āū̃. — "she wants that I come."
4. usne bolā ki tum nā jāo. — "s/he said (wanted) that you don't go."

The perfect future subjunctive either assumes that an event will definitely happen or the event is actually going to happen. Perfective future subjunctive are not used with events that are relatively unlikely happeningsː

1. agar vo āye to mujhe usse milvānā. — Introduce me to him in case he comes.
2. jab vo āye to mujhe usse milvānā. — Introduce me to him when he comes.

Usually with if-clauses using either the regular future subjunctive or the perfect future subjunctive will give grammatically correct sentences, the meanings however will be different. There's a nuance of precaution, and perfective (completed) action attached to the future perfective subjunctive, it is also used when giving out warnings, while the regular subjunctive expresses just a desire or wishː

1. agar tūm kaho to ma͠i nahī̃ gāū̃gā — I won't sing if you say. (nuanceː "If you say so then I'll take your advice and won't sing.")
2. agar tūmne kahā to ma͠i nahī̃ gāū̃gā — I won't sing if you say (anything). (nuanceː "If you'd say anything to me, I won't sing at all.")

And usually replacing the perfective subjunctive with the regular subjunctive in relative clauses makes the sentence ungrammatical. However, replacing the perfective subjunctive with indicative future would still result in a grammatical sentence but with a different nuanceː

1. jis din tum āye us din karū̃gā — I'll do it the day you come.
2. *jis din tum āo us din karū̃gā — (intended) I'll do it the day you (will) come.
3. jis din tum āoge us din karū̃gā — I'll do it the day you will come.

Indicative mood conjugations

Present tense

The only verb in Hindi that has indicative present tense forms is the verb honā "to be" and all other verbs lack this conjugation. Older forms of Hindi used to have present indicative forms but over time their meaning have change and now those forms are considered the future subjunctive forms which are discussed in the section above. These conjugations act as the present indicative copula with aspectual participles.

mood	tense	gender	ma͠i	tū	tum	āp
indicative	present	♂ & ♀	hū̃	hai	ho	ha͠i

Indicative present tense conjugations of honā "to be" act as copulas that mark the indicative present tense when used with aspectual participles.

Perfect past tense

The indicative perfect conjugations in Hindi are derived from a participle and hence decline according to number and gender of the pronoun and not the pronoun itself. They are constructed by taking the verb root and adding the vowels -ā, -e, -ī, & -ī̃ respectively for masculine singular, masculine plural, feminine singular, and feminine plural. The perfect past conjugation also doubles as the perfective participle. Past perfect conjugations for the regular verb bolnā "to speak" (verb root is bol-) is shown below. Past perfect tense conjugations of honā "to be" and rêhnā "to stay" act as copulas that mark future perfective subjunctive when used with aspectual participles.

mood	tense	gender	ma͠i	tū	tum	āp
indicative	perfect	♂	-ā		-e
		♀	-ī			-ī̃
		♂	bolā		bole
		♀	bolī			bolī̃

There are a couple of verbs that have irregular perfect past forms, these are mentioned belowː

Verbs Irregular in Indicative Perfect Conjugations

Verb	Regular Stem	Irregular Stem		Masculine		Feminine
				Singular	Plural	Singular	Plural
honā "to be"	ho-	hu-		huā	hue	huī	huī̃
jānā "to go"	jā-	ga-		gayā	gaye	gayī	gayī̃
karnā "to do"	kar-	ki-	kī-	kiyā	kiye	kī	kī̃
denā "to give"	de-	di-	dī-	diyā	diye	dī	dī̃
lenā "to take"	le-	li-	lī-	liyā	liye	lī	lī̃
pīnā "to drink"	pī-	pi-	pī-	piyā	piye	pī	pī̃

Imperfect past tense

The only verb in Hindi that has indicative present tense forms is the verb honā "to be" and all other verbs lack this conjugation. These indicative imperfect forms of honā "to be" come from Sanskrit स्थित (stʰita) "standing, situated" which are derived from the PIE root *steh₂- (“to stand”).^[15] Imperfect past tense conjugations of honā "to be" act as copula that mark indicative imperfect past when used with aspectual participles.

mood	tense	gender	ma͠i	tū	tum	āp
indicative	perfect	♂	thā		the
		♀	thī			thī̃

Future tense

The indicative future tense forms are constructed using the future subjunctive conjugations (which are discussed above) by adding the future marking suffix -gā that declines for the number and the gender of the noun that the pronoun refers to.

Future Inflectional Suffix gender singular plural ♂ -gā -gē ♀ -gī

mood tense gender ma͠i tū tum āp subjunctive future ♂ & ♀ -ū̃ -e -o -ẽ indicative future ♂ -ū̃-gā -e-gā -o-ge -ẽ-ge ♀ -ū̃-gī -e-gī -o-gī -ẽ-gī ♂ bolū̃gā bolegā bologe bolẽge ♀ bolū̃gī bolegī bologī bolẽgī

Presumptive mood conjugations

The only verb in Hindi that has presumptive mood conjugations is the verb honā "to be" and all other verbs lack this conjugation. These are constructed from the present subjunctive by adding the future suffix -gā. The same conjugation is used for all three tensesː present, past, and future. Presumptive mood conjugations of honā "to be" act as copulas that mark presumptive mood when used with aspectual participles.

Future Inflectional Suffix gender singular plural ♂ -gā -gē ♀ -gī

mood tense gender ma͠i tū tum āp subjunctive present ♂ & ♀ hū̃ ho hõ presumptive present past future ♂ hū̃gā hogā hõge ♀ hū̃gī hogī hõgī

Contrafactual mood conjugations

Just like the indicative imperfect past and the indicative perfect past conjugations, the contrafactual mood conjugations are also derived from a participle form and declines the same way as them. It is constructed by taking the verb root and adding the suffix -tā to it which declines for number and gender of the noun that the pronoun refers to. Contrafactual mood conjugations for all verbs are regular. Contrafactual mood can only be used in the past tense as it expresses hypothetical scenarios that "could have" happened but didn't. It acts as both the past subjunctive and the past conditional. Contrafactual mood conjugations of honā "to be" and rêhnā "to stay" act as copulas that mark contrafactual mood when used with aspectual participles.

The participle that makes up the contrafactual mood conjugations also double as the habitual aspect participle.

mood	tense	gender	ma͠i	tū	tum	āp
contrafactual	past	♂	-tā		-te
		♀	-tī			-tī̃
		♂	boltā		bolte
		♀	boltī			boltī̃

Imperative mood conjugations

The rules to form the imperatives areː Whenever a single-syllable verb root ends in the vowel -ī then the consonant -j- is added between the imperative conjugation suffix and the verb root.

1. Intimate pronoun (tū)ː
   1. Present imperative — The verb root is the imperative form. All the present imperatives for the pronoun tū are regular.
   2. Future imperative — The suffix -iyo is added to the verb root. For the verbs lenā and denā, the verb stem changes from le- and de- to just l- and d-, respectively. Hence forming the future imperatives diyo and liyo.
2. Familiar pronoun (tum)ː
   1. Present imperative — The suffix -o (or -yo when the verb root ends in a vowel) is added to the verb root. For the verbs lenā and denā the verb root changes to l- and d-, respectively. Hence forming do and lo. For pīnā the stem changes to pi-.
   2. Future imperative — The future imperative for tum is the same as the infintive form. All future imperative forms of tum are regular.
3. Formal pronoun (āp)ː
   1. Present imperative — The suffix -iye is added to the verb root. Some verbs whose roots are one-syllabled and end in the vowel -ī or -i form the formal imperatives by adding the consonant -j- between the root and suffix as -j-iye.
   2. Future imperative — The future suffix -gā is added to the present imperative form for the pronoun āp. So, equivalently the suffix -iyegā is added to the verb root as suffix following the same rules as the present imperative for āp.

Verbs Irregular in Imperative Conjugations Verb 2nd person pronoun tū (2P intimate) tum (2P familiar) āp (2P formal) present future present future present future regular bolnā "to speak" bol boliyo bolo bolnā boliye boliyegā irregular denā "to give" de diyo do denā dījiye dījiyegā lenā "to take" le liyo lo lenā lījiye lījiyegā pīnā "to drink" pī pīiyo piyo pīnā pījiye pījiyegā

Noteː The irregular forms are bolded in the table above.

Participles

There are two types of participles in Hindi, aspectual participles which mark the aspect and non-aspectual participles which do not mark aspect. In the table below which mentions the different participles present in Hindi, ɸ denotes the verb root. The verb root ɸ for non-complex verbs is a single root however for complex verbs ɸ is in the form of ɸ1 + ɸ2 where ɸ2 acts like ɸ of the non-complex verbs which is declinable according to the aspect, for example, for the verb karnā ("to do") the root is kar and for the complex verb kar jānā (which is one of the perfective forms of "to do") the root is "kar jā-" where ɸ1 = kar and ɸ2 = jā.

Participles in Hindi
Participle		Participle ^[4]^[5]				Usage and Copulas ^[5]
		♂		♀
		singular	plural	singular	plural
Aspectual	Habitual ^[4]^[5]	ɸ-tā	ɸ-te	ɸ-tī	ɸ-tī̃	The copulas that can be used with habitual and perfective aspect participles are: honā (to be) rêhnā (to stay, remain) ānā (to come) jānā (to go)
	Perfective ^[4]^[5]	ɸ-(y)ā	ɸ-(y)e	ɸ-(y)ī	ɸ-(y)ī̃
	Progressive ^[4]^[5]	ɸ + rahā	ɸ + rahe	ɸ + rahī	ɸ + rahī̃	The copulas that can be used with progressive aspect participle are: honā (to be) rêhnā (to stay, remain)
	Perfective Adjectival ^[4]^[16]^[17]	ɸ-(y)ā huā	ɸ-(y)e hue	ɸ-(y)ī huī	ɸ-(y)ī huī̃	translation: "(already) verbed"
	Imperfective Adjectival	ɸ-tā huā	ɸ-te hue	ɸ-tī huī	ɸ-tī huī̃	translation: "(while) verbing"
	Imperfective Progressive	ɸ-te-ɸ-te				translation: "(while in the process of) verbing", "during verbing"
	Perfective Progressive	ɸ-(y)e-ɸ-(y)e				Only a few verbs which express a temporary state have perfective progressive participle. For e.g. baiṭhnā (to sit) → baiṭhe-baiṭhe = while (already) sitting par̥nā (to lie flat, to fall flat) → par̥e-par̥e = while (already) lying flat bichnā (to get spread out) → biche-biche = while (already) spread out
Non-Aspectual	Infinitive^[2]	ɸ-nā	ɸ-ne	ɸ-nī	ɸ-nī̃	Infinitive participle is always takes in the dative case pronouns as the subject. (seeː Dative subjects & Quirky subjects) The copulas that are used with the infinitive participle are: honā (to be) — shows what is to be done; "have to verb" or "want to verb" rêhnā (to stay, remain) — shows what was remaining to do ānā (to come) — shows ability; ableness par̥nā (to fall flat) — shows cumpulsion; inevitability; "(will) have to verb"; "had to verb" etc. Grammaticalised conjugated verbs that are used with the infintive participle: chāhiye (want) (from the verb chāhnā "to want/love") — used to give advice; "should"
	Oblique Infinitive^[18]	ɸ-ne				1. with postpositions ɸ-ne mẽ (= in verbing) ɸ-ne se (= because of verbing) ɸ-ne ke liye (= for verbing, to verb) ɸ-ne ko (= to verb) ɸ-ne kā (= of verbing; with which could be verbed) 2. without postpositions ɸ1-ne ɸ2-nā (e.g. karne jānā = to go somewhere to do something; karne lagnā = to start to do; to start doing)
	Prospective ^[6]	ɸ-ne-vālā	ɸ-ne-vāle	ɸ-ne-vālī	ɸ-ne-vālī̃	translation: "going to verb" ("honā" (to be) and "rêhnā" (to stay) can be used as copulas)
	Conjunctive ^[17]	ɸ-ke (short for, ɸ-kar)				translations: "after verbing", "by verbing", "because of verbing", "while verbing"

Notes:

• ɸ-(y)ā denotes that when the verb root ɸ ends in a vowel, the consonant -y- is added, else it isn't.
• The participles which do not end in the vowel ā in their masculine singular form are cannot be declined according to gender or number, for example, the oblique infinitive and the progressive participle end in the vowel -e and hence have the same form for all gender and number combinations. Also, usually such participles do not take in the copula after them but instead a verb.
• Infinitive participles always use the dative pronouns as subjects,^[19] while other participles can have the nominative or the dative case pronouns as subjects, depending on the verb used. For example:
  1. mujhe bolnā acchā lagtā hai. = I like to speak. ("bolnā" here is the infinitive participle, and not the infinitive. It agrees in gender and number with the direct object in the sentence. It takes the default masculine form when no object is present.)
  2. ma͠i bolnā pasand kartā hū̃. = I like to speak. ("bolnā" here is the infinitive, and hence it cannot decline according to the gender and number)
  3. mujhe bolne se thakān hotī hai. = I get tired because of speaking.
  4. ma͠i bolne se thak jātā hū̃. = I get tired because of speaking.

Copulas & Subaspects

As discussed in the above section, there are three aspect marking participles which take in a copula in order to assign a grammatical mood and tense to the aspectual form. There are four verbs which can be used as the copula: honā (to be), rêhnā (to stay), ānā (to come), jānā (to go), and karnā (to do). Each of the four copulas provide a unique nuance to the aspect. The default (unmarked) copula is honā (to be).^[5][4] Below is a table showing the infinitive forms of each of the aspectual forms using different copulas:

Simple Aspect	Perfective Aspect					Habitual Aspect				Progressive Aspect		Translation
honā	huā honā	huā rêhnā	huā jānā	huā ānā	huā karnā	hotā honā	hotā rêhnā	hotā jānā	hotā ānā	ho rahā honā	ho rahā rêhnā	to happen
karnā	kiyā honā	kiyā rêhnā	kiyā jānā	kiyā ānā	kiyā karnā	kartā honā	kartā rêhnā	kartā jānā	kartā ānā	kar rahā honā	kar rahā rêhnā	to do
marnā	marā honā	marā rêhnā	marā jānā	marā ānā	marā karnā	martā honā	martā rêhnā	martā jānā	martā ānā	mar rahā honā	mar rahā rêhnā	to die

The other copulas unlike honā (to be) can also again be put into their aspectul forms and then the copula honā (to be) is used to mark the tense and the mood, hence forming subaspects. However, these copulas cannot be put into all three aspects. It depends on the verb and also the copula itself what grammatical aspects can the copula can be put into. The following two tables show subaspectual forms for each of the three aspects.

Perfective Aspect
rêhnā				jānā					ānā		karnā
Habitual subaspect	Perfective subaspect	Progressive subaspect^2		Habitual subaspect^1	Perfective subaspect^1	Progressive subaspect^2			Progressive subaspect		Habitual subaspect
huā rêhtā honā	huā rahā honā	huā rêh rahā honā		*huā jātā honā	*huā gāyā honā	huā jā rahā honā	huā jā rahā rêhnā		huā ā rahā honā		huā kartā honā
kiyā rêhtā honā	kiyā rahā honā	kiyā rêh rahā honā		kiyā jātā honā	kiyā gayā honā	kiyā jā rahā honā	kiyā jā rahā rêhnā		kiyā ā rahā honā		kiyā kartā honā
marā rêhtā honā	marā rahā honā	marā rêh rahā honā		marā jātā honā	marā gayā honā	marā jā rahā honā	marā jā rahā rêhnā		marā ā rahā honā		marā kartā honā

¹ When the copula jānā (to go) is used, only transitive and volitional intransitive verbs can be put into the habitual and perfective subaspect. So, *huā jātā honā and *huā gāyā honā are not valid constructions. However, somehow huā jā rahā honā is a valid construction but it means the same as hotā jā rahā honā which is the progressive subaspect of the habitual aspect using the copula jānā (shown below) but just emphasising the rate (shows its faster) at which the action is happening; progressive subaspects of the perfective aspect using jānā (to go) is often just the more emphasised version of the progressive subaspect of the habitual aspect using jānā (to go). marnā (to die) is intransitive but it is a volitional action especially when used metaphorically as in "pizzā khāne ke liye marā jā rahā hū̃" = "I am dying to eat a pizza". Other commonly used voliational usage of marnā (to die) is for e.g. "dying in a videogame".

² The progressive subaspect of the perfective aspect can also use the copula rêhnā (to stay, remain) and it can be again conjugated into aspectual participle forms, hence forming what could be called a sub-sub-aspect. An example using habitual sub-subaspectː "jab bhī uske sāth bāhar jātī hū̃ vo marā jā rahā rêhtā hai pizzā khāne ke liye" = "Whenever I go out with him he always is (nuanceː I always find him) dying to eat a pizza". This sentence combines and mixes the nuances of all the three, perfective (main), progressive (sub), and habitual (subsub), aspects on the same verb marnā (to die).

Habitual Aspect										Progressive Aspect
rêhnā				jānā			ānā			rêhnā
Habitual subaspect	Perfective subaspect	Progressive subaspect		Habitual subaspect	Progressive subaspect		Habitual subaspect	Progressive subaspect		Habitual subaspect
hotā rêhtā honā	hotā rahā honā	hotā rêh rahā honā		hotā jātā honā	hotā jā rahā honā		hotā ātā honā	hotā ā rahā honā		ho rahā rêhtā honā
kartā rêhtā honā	kartā rahā honā	kartā rêh rahā honā		kartā jātā honā	kartā jā rahā honā		kartā ātā honā	kartā ā rahā honā		kar rahā rêhtā honā
martā rêhtā honā	martā rahā honā	martā rêh rahā honā		martā jātā honā	martā jā rahā honā		martā ātā honā	martā ā rahā honā		mar rahā rêhtā honā

Light Verbs

Compound verbs, a highly visible feature of Hindi grammar, consist of a verbal stem plus a light verb. The light verb (also called "subsidiary", "explicator verb", and "vector"^[20]) loses its own independent meaning and instead "lends a certain shade of meaning"^[21] to the main or stem verb, which "comprises the lexical core of the compound".^[20] While almost any verb can act as a main verb, there is a limited set of productive light verbs.^[22] Shown below are prominent such light verbs, with their independent meaning first outlined, followed by their semantic contribution as auxiliaries. Finally, having to do with the manner of an occurrence, compounds verbs are mostly used with completed actions and imperatives, and much less with negatives, conjunctives, and contexts continuous or speculative. This is because non-occurrences cannot be described to have occurred in a particular manner.^[23] The auxiliaries when combined with the main verb provides an aspectual sense to the main verb it modifies. Light verbs such as jānā "to go", ānā "to come", cuknā when combined with the main verb give the formed compound verb a perfective aspect, while retaining the original meaning of the main verb.

Most Common Light Verbs
Light Verb	Explanation	Main Verb	Examples
jānā "to go"	Shows perfective aspect (completed action) of the main verb which means gives a sense of completeness of the action, finality, or change of state.^[24]	1. ānā "to come" 2. khānā "to eat" 3. marnā "to die" 4. pīnā "to drink" 5. baiṭhnā "to sit" 6. honā "to happen"	1. ā jānā "to arrive" " to have come" 2. khā jānā "to eat up (all/everything/completely)" 3. mar jānā "to be dead" 4. pī jānā "to drink up (all/everything/completely)" "to gulp" 5. baiṭh jānā "to sit down" "to have sit down" 6. ho jānā "to have happened (completely)" "to have finished happening"
lenā "to take"	suggests that the action is completed and the benefit of the action flows towards the doer.^[23] This auxiliary verb can also to used to soften down the tone of imperatives (commands) and usually is used to give suggestions.	1. paṛhnā "to read" 2. karnā "to do" 3. calnā "to walk" 4. mārnā "to kill, hit"	1. paṛh lenā "to read (for oneself/for own's desire)" 2. kar lenā "to do (something fully for oneself)" "to have finished doing something" 3. cal lenā "to have walked" 4. mār lenā "to kill (for oneself)"
denā "to give"	suggests that the action was completed and the benefit of the action flows away from the doer.^[23]	1. paṛhnā "to read, study" 2. mārnā "to kill, hit" 3. karnā "to do"	1. paṛh denā "to read (for someone)" "to read out" 2. mār denā "to kill", "to kill off", "to murder" 3. kar denā "to do (something completely for someone else and not oneself)"
ānā "to come"	Shows perfective aspect of the main verb which means gives a sense of completeness of the action, finality, or change of state. The meaning conveyed is the doer went somewhere to do something and came back after completing the action.	1. karnā "to do" 2. nikalnā "to come out"	1. kar ānā "to finish (and come back)", "to do (and return)"; 2. nikal ānā "to escape"
cuknā "to have (already) completed something"	Shows sense of completeness of an action in the past, that the action was already done/finished/completed by the doer sometime in the past.	1. marnā "to die" 2. jītnā "to win"	1. mar cuknā "to have already died" 2. jīt cuknā "to have already won"

The first three light verbs in the above table are the most common of auxiliaries, and the "least marked", or "lexically nearly colourless".^[25] The nuance conveyed by an auxiliary can often be very subtle, and need not always be expressed with different words in English translation. lenā (to take) and denā (to give), transitive verbs, occur with transitives, while intransitive jānā (to go) occurs mostly with intransitives; a compound of a transitive and jānā (to go) will be grammatically intransitive as jānā (to go) is.

Some other light verbs
Light Verb	Explanation	Examples
ḍālnā "to throw, pour"	Indicates an action done vigorously, decisively, violently or recklessly. it is an intensifier, showing intensity, urgency, completeness, or violence.^[26]^[27]	1. mārnā "to hit/kill" → mār ḍālnā "to kill (violently)" 2. pīnā "to drink" → pī ḍālnā "to drink (all of something in one go)".
baiṭhnā "to sit"	Implies an action done foolishly or stubbornly;^[28] shows speaker disapproval or an impulsive or involuntary action.^[26]	1. kêhnā "to say" → kêh baiṭhnā "to say something (involuntarily or by mistake)" 2. karnā "to do" → kar baiṭhnā "to do (something as a blunder)" 3. laṛnā "to fight" → laṛ baiṭhnā "to quarrel (foolishly, or without giving a second thought)".
paṛnā "to fall flat"	Connotes involuntary, sudden, or unavoidable occurrence;^[25]	1. uṭhnā "to get up" → uṭh paṛnā "to suddenly get up"
uṭhnā "to rise"	Functions like an intensifier;^[29] suggests inception of action or feeling, with its independent/literal meaning sometimes showing through in a sense of upward movement.	1. jalnā "to burn" → jal uṭhnā "to burst into flames" 2. nācnā "to dance" → nāc uṭhnā "to break into dance".^[28]
saknā "to be able to"	A modal verb that indicates the capability of performing an action.	1. karnā "to do" → kar saknā "to be able to do" 2. dekhnā "to see" → dekh saknā "to be able to see"
rakhnā "to keep, maintain"	Implies a firmness of action, or one with possibly long-lasting results or implications. It occurs with lenā and denā, meaning "to give/take (as a loan)",^[30] and with other appropriate verbs, showing an action performed beforehand.^[26] It usually works almost the same as cuknā the main difference being the nuance conveyed by rakhnā is that the action has either "continued effect till the present time" or "is more recent than the same action conveyed using cuknā." cuknā conveys a distant past.	1. dekhnā "to see" → dekh rakhnā "to have already seen" 2. karnā "to do" → kar rakhnā "to have already done"
rêhnā "to remain/stay"	The continuous aspect marker rahā apparently originated as a compound verb with rahnā ("remain"): thus ma͠i bol rahā hū̃ = "I have remained speaking" → "I have continued speaking" → "I am speaking". However, it has lost the ability to take any form other than the imperfective, and is thus considered to have become grammaticalized.^[31]	1. karnā "to do"→ kar rahā rêhnā "to be/stay doing." 2. karnā "to do"→ kar rahā honā "to be doing."
mārnā "to hit"	It is a non-productive light verb (LV) and is used with very limited verbs, most commonly with denā "to give".	1. denā "to give" → de mārnā "to hit once but with all force"
phāṛnā "to tear"	It is a non-productive LV. Used only with the verb cīrnā "to tear apart"	1. cīrnā "to tear apart" → cīr phāṛnā "to tear apart brutally"

Ergativity and Light verbs

Hindi is an aspectually split ergative language, with the ergative case marker, -ne, appearing on the subject of the transitive perfective clauses.^[32] A standard ergative construction in Hindi is shown below — the verb is a transitive perfective participle, the subject carries the ergative case marker -ne, the object is unmarked and the participle agrees in gender with the object.

(a)	Kabir-nē Kabir.-ERG.MASC vo that.DEM gār̥ī car:NOM.FEM jaldī-se quick.INST becī. sell.PRF.FEM Kabir-nē vo gār̥ī jaldī-se becī. Kabir.-ERG.MASC that.DEM car:NOM.FEM quick.INST sell.PRF.FEM "Kabir sold that car quickly"
(b)	Kabir-nē Kabir.-ERG.MASC vo that.DEM gār̥ī car:NOM.FEM jaldī-se quick.INST bec sell lī. take.PRF.FEM Kabir-nē vo gār̥ī jaldī-se bec lī. Kabir.-ERG.MASC that.DEM car:NOM.FEM quick.INST sell take.PRF.FEM "Kabir sold that car quickly"

The light verb construction exemplified in (b) above has been has been studied extensively in Hindi linguistics. It is a two-verb sequence (referred to here as V1–v2) [bec = V1, lī = v2 ] in which the first verb (V1) is morphologically the bare stem and the second verb (v2) carries the usual clausal inflection. The V1 functions as the main verb, providing the bulk of meaning/thematic information, and the v2 is ‘‘relatively’’ light. This ‘‘light’’ v2 does provide certain subtle semantic information, mostly (though not entirely) aspectual/directional in nature.^[32]

Compound verbs and ergative marking

Ergative case marking in compound verb constructions is affected by the transitivity of the v2. McGregor (1972:104) notes that ‘‘Compound verbs are used in construction with -ne when both the stem verb and the auxiliary (=v2) are themselves used independently with -ne.’’ Amritavalli (1979:77–78) comments ‘‘In sentences with compound verbs it is the transitivity (and perfectivity) of v2 that determines the ergative case-marking.’’ The basic pattern of compound verb constructions is given in (1a)–(1c) below.

(1a)	Kabir-nē Kabir.-ERG.MASC vo that.DEM kitāb book:NOM.FEM jaldī-se quick.INST par̥h read lī. take.PRF.FEM Kabir-nē vo kitāb jaldī-se par̥h lī. Kabir.-ERG.MASC that.DEM book:NOM.FEM quick.INST read take.PRF.FEM "Kabir read that book quickly"
(1b)	*Kabir-nē Kabir.-ERG.MASC vo that.DEM kitāb book:NOM.FEM jaldī-se quick.INST par̥h read gayī. go.PRF.FEM *Kabir-nē vo kitāb jaldī-se par̥h gayī. Kabir.-ERG.MASC that.DEM book:NOM.FEM quick.INST read go.PRF.FEM intendedː "Kabir read that book quickly"
(1c)	Kabir Kabir.NOM.MASC vo that.DEM kitāb book:NOM.FEM jaldī-se quick.INST par̥h read gayā. go.PRF.MASC Kabir vo kitāb jaldī-se par̥h gayā. Kabir.NOM.MASC that.DEM book:NOM.FEM quick.INST read go.PRF.MASC "Kabir read that book quickly"

Certain intransitive V1s do allow for ergative subjects when the light v2 is transitive.^[33] Intransitive V1s that permit ergative subjects with transitive v2’s belong to the unergative khā̃snā ‘‘to cough’’ class of verbs. Verbs in this class of intransitives in Hindi independently permit ergative subjects and the choice of -ne subjects has been argued to be associated with properties of volitionality or conscious choice. Some other voliational (intransitive) verbs which allow ergative case assignment are bolnā "to speak", chī̃knā "to sneeze", cillānā "to shout", nahānā "to take a bath" etc. In all these cases the agent has complete control and volition of the activity.^[34]

(2a)	Kabir-ne Kabir.ERG.MASC khā̃s cough diyā do.PRF.MASC Kabir-ne khā̃s diyā Kabir.ERG.MASC cough do.PRF.MASC "Kabir coughed"
(2b)	Kabir-ne Kabir.ERG.MASC khā̃sā cough.PRF.MASC Kabir-ne khā̃sā Kabir.ERG.MASC cough.PRF.MASC "Kabir coughed"

Examples in (1a)–(2b) show that V1v2 compound verb constructions allow ergative subjects when both V1 and v2, when functioning as main verbs, independently allow ergative subjects. Crucial evidence as to the source of ergativity in V1v2 constructions comes from pairings in which the case properties of the V1 are distinct from those of the v2. Though it is rare to find V1(intransitive)v2(transitive) sequences in which the V1 is not independently an ergative case licensing verbs, such examples do exist: cal denā ‘‘to move-give’’ (=move, depart), khisak lenā ‘‘to slip away-take’’ (=to slip away) and sarak lenā ‘‘crawl-take’’ (=to slip away/to move away). Interestingly, V1v2 sequences of this type do not permit ergative subjects, despite the ability of the v2 to license ergative subjects when functioning as main verbs.

(3a)	gār̥ī car.NOM.FEM cal move dī give.PRF.FEM gār̥ī cal dī car.NOM.FEM move give.PRF.FEM "The car moved"
(3b)	*gār̥ī-ne car.ERG.FEM cal move diyā give.PRF.MASC *gār̥ī-ne cal diyā car.ERG.FEM move give.PRF.MASC intendedː "The car moved"

Examples in (4a)-(4b) below show that the ergative case licensing property of the light v2 is nevertheless critical, as intransitive (usually unaccusative) v2’s never allow ergative subjects, regardless of the ergative case licensing properties of the V1.

(4a)	*Kabir-nē Kabir.-ERG.MASC vo that.DEM kitāb book:NOM.FEM jaldī-se quick.INST par̥h read gayī. go.PRF.FEM *Kabir-nē vo kitāb jaldī-se par̥h gayī. Kabir.-ERG.MASC that.DEM book:NOM.FEM quick.INST read go.PRF.FEM intendedː "Kabir read that book quickly"
(4b)	*Sītā-nē Sita.-ERG.FEM bahut very bar̥ī big:FEM galtī mistake.FEM kar do baiṭhī. sit.PRF.FEM *Sītā-nē bahut bar̥ī galtī kar baiṭhī. Sita.-ERG.FEM very big:FEM mistake.FEM do sit.PRF.FEM intendedː "Sita made a very big mistake"

Verb Paradigm

Non-personal Forms

Participles
Undeclined forms Verb forms translation Infinitive honā 1. to be 2. to exist 3. to happen 4. to have Oblique Infinitive hone 1. being 2. existing 3. happening 4. having Conjunctive hoke / hokar 1. after happening 2. after being/becoming Imperfective Progressive hote-hote 1. while happening 2. while being 4. while existing Perfective Progressive^1 hue-hue 1. while (already) been	Participles (Declined forms) ♂ ♀ translation singular plural singular plural Habitual hotā hote hotī hotī̃ 1. happens (habitually) [present] 2. used to happen [past] Perfective huā hue huī huī̃ 1. happened Progressive ho rahā ho rahe ho rahī ho rahī̃ 1. happening 2. being Infinitive honā hone honī honī̃ 1. have/want/should (to) be 2. have/want/should (to) happen 3. have/want/should (to) exist Prospective honevālā honevāle honevālī honevālī̃ 1. going to be 2. going to happen 3. going to exist Perfective Adjectival huā-huā hue-hue huī-huī huī-huī̃ 1. already been 2. already happened Habitual Adjectival hotā-huā hote-hue hotī-huī hotī-huī̃ 1. already been 2. already happened
^1 perfective progressive form of verbs is mainly only used with verbs that describe a temporary state. for e.g. baiṭhnā (to sit) → baiṭhe-baiṭhe = while (already) sitting baiṭhnā (to sit) → baiṭhte-baiṭhte = while (in the process of) sitting

Conjugation of verbs

All the verbs in Hindi except the verb honā (to be) are defective and cannot be conjugated into these following moods and tenses in their non-aspectual forms (or simple aspect):

• present indicative
• imperfect indicative
• presumptive mood
• present subjunctive

The verb honā (to be) serves as the copula whose conjugations are used to form the three aspectual forms of verbs (habitual, perfective, and progressive). In the tables below all the conjugations of the copula are shown on the top and all the conjugations of the verb karnā (to do) (like which all other verbs behave) are shown on the bottom.

VERB CONJUGATIONS (NON-ASPECTUAL FORMS)

honā (to be)
mood	tense	1P - ma͠i (singular)		2P - tum^1 (singular & plural)		3P - yah/ye, vah/vo (singular)		1P - ham (plural)		Translations (3rd person)
								2P - āp^1 (singular & plural)
						2P - tū (singular)		3P - ye, ve/vo (plural)
		♂	♀	♂	♀	♂	♀	♂	♀
indicative	present	hū̃		ho		hai		ha͠i		is, there is, exists
	perfect^3	huā	huī	hue	huī	huā	huī	hue	huī̃	was, happened
	imperfect	thā	thī	the	thī	thā	thī	the	thī̃	was
	future^2	hoū̃gā	hoū̃gī	hooge	hoogī	hoegā	hoegī	hoẽge	hoẽgī	will be
presumptive	present	hū̃gā	hū̃gī	hoge	hogī	hogā	hogī	hõge	hõgī	might be
	past									might have been
	future^2									might be
subjunctive	present	hū̃		ho		ho		hõ		(that) it be
	future	hoū̃		hoo		hoe		hoẽ		(that) it become
	future^3 (perfective)	huā	huī	hue	huī	huā	huī	hue	huī̃	(if/when) it happens
contrafactual	past	hotā	hotī	hote	hotī	hotā	hotī	hote	hotī̃	would have been
imperative	present	—		hoo		ho		hoiye		beǃ (right now)
	future	—		honā		hoiyo		hoiyegā		beǃ (in the future)

karnā (to do)
mood	tense	1P - ma͠i (singular)		2P - tum^1 (singular & plural)		3P - yah/ye, vah/vo (singular)		1P - ham (plural)		Translations (3rd person)
								2P - āp^1 (singular & plural)
						2P - tū (singular)		3P - ye, ve/vo (plural)
		♂	♀	♂	♀	♂	♀	♂	♀
indicative	perfect^3	kiyā	kī	kiye	kī	kiyā	kī	kiye	kī̃	did
	future	karū̃gā	karū̃gī	karoge	karogī	karegā	karegī	karẽge	karẽgī	will do
subjunctive	future	karū̃		karo		kare		karẽ		(that) s/he do
	future^3 (perfective)	kiyā	kī	kiye	kī	kiyā	kī	kiye	kī̃	(if/when) s/he does
contrafactual	past	kartā	kartī	karte	kartī	kartā	kartī	karte	kartī̃	would have done
imperative	present	—		karo		kar		kariye		doǃ (right now)
	future	—		karnā		kariyo		kariyegā		doǃ (in the future)

¹ the second person pronouns tum, āp can be used both in singular and plural sense akin to the English second person pronoun "you".
² the indicative future and presumptive future conjugations are often used synonymously.
³ the simple perfect verb forms when used in an if-cause or a relative clause, they would not be considered perfect indicative but instead a type of future subjunctive.^[4]

Aspectual form of verbs

Using the three aspectual participles, the habitual, perfective, and the progressive aspectual forms are constructed. The aspectual forms for the verb karnā (to do) are shown in the table below:

VERB CONJUGATIONS (ASPECTUAL FORMS)

mood tense 1P - ma͠i (singular) 2P - tum^1 (singular & plural) 3P - yah/ye, vah/vo (singular) 1P - ham (plural) Translations (3rd person) 2P - āp^1 (singular & plural) 2P - tū (singular) 3P - ye, ve/vo (plural) ♂ ♀ ♂ ♀ ♂ ♀ ♂ ♀ HABITUAL ASPECT^3 indicative present kartā hū̃ kartī hū̃ karte ho kartī ho kartā hai kartī hai karte ha͠i kartī ha͠i s/he does past kartā thā kartī thī karte the kartī thī kartā thā kartī thī karte the kartī thī̃ s/he used to do future^3 kartā rahũgā kartī rahũgī karte rahoge kartī rahogī kartā rahegā kartī rahegī karte rahẽge kartī rahẽgī s/he will keep doing presumptive present kartā hū̃gā kartī hū̃gī karte hoge kartī hogī kartā hogā kartī hogī karte hõge kartī hõgī s/he (presumably) does past s/he (presumably) used to do subjunctive present kartā hū̃ kartī hū̃ karte ho kartī ho kartā ho kartī ho kartā hõ kartī hõ (that) s/he does future kartā rahũ kartī rahũ karte raho kartī raho kartā rahe kartī rahe karte rahẽ kartī rahẽ (that) s/he continuous doing future^6 (perfective) kartā rahā kartī rahī karte rahe kartī rahī kartā rahā kartī rahī karte rahe kartī rahī̃ (if/when) s/he keeps doing contrafactual past kartā hotā kartī hotī karte hote kartī hotī kartā hotā kartī hotī karte hote kartī hotī̃ 1. s/he would have been doing 2. (wish) she were doing imperative^4 present — — karte raho kartī raho kartā rêh kartī rêh karte rahiye kartī rahiye keep doingǃ (as you are doing right now) future — — karte rêhnā kartī rêhnā kartā rahiyo kartī rahiyo karte rahiyegā kartī rahiyegā keep doingǃ (in the future as well) PERFECTIVE ASPECT indicative present kiyā hū̃ kī hū̃ kiye ho kī ho kiyā hai kī hai kiye ha͠i kī ha͠i s/he has done past kiyā thā kī thī kiye the kī thī kiyā thā kī thī kiye the kī thī̃ s/he had done future^5 kiyā hoū̃gā kī hoū̃gī kiye hooge kī hoogī kiyā hoegā kī hoegī kiye hoẽge kī hoẽgī s/he will have done kiyā rahū̃gā kī rahū̃gī kiye rahoge kī rahogī kiyā rahegā kī rahegī kiye rahẽge kī rahẽgī s/he will have done presumptive present kiyā hū̃gā kī hū̃gī kiye hoge kī hogī kiyā hogā kī hogī kiye hõge kī hõgī s/he might have done past s/he might have done subjunctive present kiyā hū̃ kī hū̃ kiye ho kī ho kiyā ho kī ho kiye hõ kī hõ (that) s/he has done future^5 kiyā hoū̃ kī hoū̃ kiye hoo kī hoo kiyā hoe kī hoe kiye hoẽ kī hoẽ (that) s/he will have done kiyā rahū̃ kī rahū̃ kiye raho kī raho kiyā rahe kī rahe kiye rahẽ kī rahẽ (that) s/he will have done future^6 (perfective) kiyā rahā kī rahī kiye rahe kī rahī kiyā rahā kī rahī kiye rahe kī rahī̃ (if/when) s/he will have done contrafactual past kiyā hotā kī hotī kiye hote kī hotī kiyā hotā kī hotī kiye hote kī hotī̃ 1. s/he would have done 2. (wish) s/he had done imperative^4 present — — kiye raho kī raho kiyā rêh kī rêh kiye rahiye kī rahiye keep it doneǃ (right now) future — — kiye rêhnā kī rêhnā kiyā rahiyo kī rahiyo kiye rahiyegā kī rahiyegā keep it doneǃ (in the future) PROGRESSIVE ASPECT indicative present kar rahā hū̃ kar rahī hū̃ kar rahe ho kar rahī ho kar rahā hai kar rahī hai kar rahe ha͠i kar rahī ha͠i s/he is doing past kar rahā thā kar rahī thī kar rahe the kar rahī thī kar rahā thā kar rahī thī kar rahe the kar rahī thī̃ s/he was doing future^2,5 kar rahā hoū̃gā kar rahī hoū̃gī kar rahe hooge kar rahī hoogī kar rahā hoegā kar rahī hoegī kar rahe hoẽge kar rahī hoẽgī s/he will be doing kar rahā rahū̃gā kar rahī rahū̃gī kar rahe rahoge kar rahī rahogī kar rahā rahegā kar rahī rahegī kar rahe rahẽge kar rahī rahẽgī s/he will be doing presumptive present kar rahā hū̃gā kar rahī hū̃gī kar rahe hoge kar rahī hogī kar rahā hogā kar rahī hogī kar rahe hõge kar rahī hõgī s/he might be doing past s/he might have been doing future^2 s/he presumably will be doing subjunctive present kar rahā hū̃ kar rahī hū̃ kar rahe ho kar rahī ho kar rahā ho kar rahī ho kar rahe hõ kar rahī hõ (that) s/he is doing future kar rahā hoū̃ kar rahī hoū̃ kar rahe hoo kar rahī hoo kar rahā hoe kar rahī hoe kar rahe hoẽ kar rahī hoẽ (that) s/he will be doing future^5,6 (perfective) kar rahā huā kar rahī huī kar rahe hue kar rahī huī kar rahā huā kar rahī huī kar rahe hue kar rahī huī̃ (if/when) s/he will be doing kar rahā rahā kar rahī rahī kar rahe rahe kar rahī rahī kar rahā rahā kar rahī rahī kar rahe rahe kar rahī rahī̃ (if/when) s/he will be doing contrafactual past kar rahā hotā kar rahī hotī kar rahe hote kar rahī hotī kar rahā hotā kar rahī hotī kar rahe hote kar rahī hotī̃ 1. s/he would have been doing 2. (wish) s/he were doing imperative present — — kar rahe raho kar rahī rêhnā kar raha rêh kar rahī rêh kar rahe rahiye kar rahī rahiye be doingǃ (now) future — — kar rahe rehnā kar rahī rêhnā kar rahā rahiyo kar rahī rahiyo kar rahe rahiyegā kar rahī rahiyegā be doingǃ (in the future)

^1 the pronouns tum and ham are grammatically plural but are more often used in as singular pronouns, akin to the English pronoun "you".

^2 the indicative and presumptive future conjugations using the copula honā (to be) are often used synonymously.

^3 the habitual aspect of Hindi cannot express the future using the copula "honā" (to be), instead the copula verb "rêhnā" (to stay) is used to construct future forms.

^4 the imperative mood of the habitual and perfective aspect forms require the copula "rêhnā" (to stay).

^5 the indicative future for the perfective and progressive aspects can alternatively also use the copula "rêhnā" (to stay), they are roughly synonymous.

^6 the simple perfect verb forms when used in an if-cause or a relative clause, they would not be considered perfect indicative but instead a type of future subjunctive.^[4]

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