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होना (to be) and करना (to do) carry more of Hindi than any other two words, partly because Hindi builds hundreds of expressions as noun + करना: काम करना, बात करना, मदद करना.
Learn होना's present forms: हूँ, है, हैं. Three forms, used constantly.
| English | Hindi | Sounds like |
|---|---|---|
| to be | होना | hona |
| to do | करना | karna |
| to go | जाना | jaana |
| to come | आना | aana |
Learning करना as just 'to do'. It is the engine of Hindi expression and deserves more attention than that.
This is day 3 of 8 in the grammar that carries weight phase (days 15–22), whose job is gender, postpositions and the present tense working together. It assumes you have done day 16. It sits in the middle of the phase, which is where most of the actual learning happens and where most people quietly stop. Day 18 continues from here.
About 23 to 33 minutes if you do the task properly rather than reading past it. Missing a day is not a reason to stop — the sequence matters, the calendar does not.
Devanagari is easy to get slightly wrong when it is typed by hand — a missing matra, the wrong nukta. If something here looks off to you, trust a native speaker over this page and please tell us so it gets fixed — it takes a moment and a real person reads it. Romanised spellings are a guide to the sound, not a standard: there is no single official way to write Hindi in Latin letters.
Today's task is a speaking task. Doing it alone is better than not doing it, and doing it with someone who corrects you is worth about five times as much.
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