8.8 Conjunct Verb

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Conjunct Verb with करना Video

In English, one can use a noun or an adjective like a verb. To use a noun or adjective as a verb in Hindi, one can combine verbs such as करना and होना with them. These combinations cannot be used to create a verb which already exists. However, Hindi does not always have a single verb equivalent to English verbs: such as to close (बंद करना).

Adjectival conjunct verb

Nominal conjunct verb

Forms

Adjective + करना

Noun + करना

Properties

Conjunct verbs with करना act like a transitive verb and hence the subject must appear with the -ne (-ने) marker when the conjunct verb comes in the perfective tense (or express a completed action). Conjunct verb with करना focuses on the doer of an action.

Negative sentence: To form a negative conjunct verb, the word नहीं should be placed between the noun/adjective and the verb करना, in a standard word order.

Agreement system: In a conjunct verb, the noun/adjective part of the conjunct verb remains unchanged and the verb करना agrees with the potential subject/object in the sentence. Based on the agreement, the verb करना changes its form.

Examples of Adjectival Conjunct Verbs

मैंने अपना कमरा साफ़ किया| “I cleaned my room.”
तुम अपना घर गंदा करते हो| “You make your house dirty.”
वे कार्यक्रम की तैयारी कर रहे हैं| “They are preparing for the program.”

Examples of Nominal Conjunct Verbs

Nominal conjunct verbs can be further divided into two categories:

**(a) one that requires a connecter such as kaa/kii.**

Examples of nouns that require connectors:

हमने उसकी मदद की| “We helped him/her.”
राहुल ने गाड़ी की मरम्मत की| “Rahul fixed the car.”
छात्र हिन्दी का अभ्यास कर रहे हैं| “Students are practicing Hindi.”
राहुल ने घर की सफ़ाई की| “Rahul cleaned a house.”

(b) one that does not require any connector.

Examples of nouns that do not require connectors:

राम ने मुझे क्षमा किया| “Rahul forgave me.”
बच्चे शोर कर रहे हैं| “Children are making noise.”
मैंने अपनी माँ को फ़ोन किया| “I called my mother.”

Conjunct Verb with होना

Conjunct verbs with होना are intransitive verbs and hence the subject must not appear with the –ne (-ने) marker when the conjunct verb comes in the perfective tense (or expresses a completed action). All the conjunct verbs with करना also have a construction with होना in which the doer of the action is usually not expressed.

Adjective + होना

Examples of adjectival conjunct verbs

मेरा कमरा साफ़ हुआ | “My room got cleaned.”
उसका कमरा गंदा हुआ | “His house became dirty.”
कार्यकर्म की तैयारी हो रही है | “Preparation for the program is taking place.”

Noun + होना

Like करना conjunct verb, Nominal conjunct verbs with होना can also be further dived into two categories

(a) one that requires connecter such as kaa/kii.

Examples of nouns that require connectors:

उसकी मदद हुई | “His/her help happened (literally)./ S/he was helped.”
गाड़ी की मरम्मत हुई | “The fixing of the car happened (literally)./ The car was fixed.”
हिन्दी का अभ्यास हो रहा है | “Practice of Hindi is happening (literally)./Hindi is being practiced.”

(b) one that does not require any connector.

Examples of nouns that do not require connectors:

यहाँ शोर हो रहा है | “It is noisy here.”
कार्यकर्म खत्म हो गया | “The program ended.”
भूल हो गयी | “The mistake happened.”

Activity 1

Please write two sentences with each of the following conjunct verbs.

फ़ैसला करना “To decide”	1. 2.
साफ़ करना “To clean”	1. 2.
वापस करना “To return”	1. 2.
ख़त्म करना “To finish”	1. 2.
कम करना “To reduce”	1. 2.
ठीक करना “To fix up”	1. 2.
तैयार करना “To prepare”	1. 2.
शुरू करना “To start”	1. 2.
मरम्मत करना “To repair”	1. 2.
x की मदद करना “To help X”	1. 2.
x का इंतज़ार करना “To wait for X”	1. 2.
x की कोशिश करना “To try X”	1. 2.
x का अभ्यास करना “To practice X”	1. 2.

Activity 2

Please write a response of these following personalized questions and then record yourself.

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Conjunct Verb with करना Video

Examples of Adjectival Conjunct Verbs

Examples of Nominal Conjunct Verbs

(a) one that requires a connecter such as kaa/kii.

(b) one that does not require any connector.

Conjunct Verb with होना

Adjective + होना

Examples of adjectival conjunct verbs

Noun + होना

(a) one that requires connecter such as kaa/kii.

(b) one that does not require any connector.

Activity 1

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**(a) one that requires a connecter such as kaa/kii.**