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In this episode we will review the first person tenses that we have covered so far. For example, we will look at “I come.” “I went” “I will go.”
 
Now let us go over the review questions from the last episode:
Translate from Hindi to English and identify if the speaker is a man or a woman.
 
1) [...]

 

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In the previous episode we learned how to make the first person future tense of verbs.  However, there are three verbs that do not follow that pattern.  We will cover them in this episode.
 
First let us look at the review questions from lat time.
Translate each sentence two times.  First as if a man was [...]

 

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Last time we talked about the first person past tense for intransitive verbs.  You would think that in this lesson we will talk about the past tense for transitive verbs.  However, the grammar is very different.  Instead of agreeing with the speaker, it agrees with the direct object, the thing that receives the action.  Therefore, [...]

 

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Yesterday, we learned about the present tense for first person verbs.  Today we will learn about the past tense for intransitive verbs.  Some examples in English would be “I went”, “I came”, “I rose”.
 
Before continuing let us go over the review questions from yesterday’s session.
 
Translate each of the following sentences two times.  First as if [...]

 

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Today we are going to learn about the first person present tense.  This would be sentences like “I go”, “I eat”, “I speak”, and the like.
 
Now let us go over the review questions from the last episode.
Give the Oblique case for the following pronouns which are listed in the direct case:
1) मैं  (main) – [...]