Letter Focus – न
June 11, 2009 1:52 am in Beginner, Letters and Sounds, Meena, Naraindas, Nathan by Nathan
How does it look?
Line one top, with a vertical line to the right. In to this sticks a sideways nine facing down. That is a little loop on the bottom and end of a horizontal line that sticks into the vertical line.
How to type it?
If you are using a US English keyboard with the standard Devanagari/Hindi layout, then you would press “v”
(see “How to type in Hindi” for more information about setting up your computer.)
Words
At the Beginning
नल -tap
नट – actor
नर – man
नभ – sky
नस – vein
नमक – salt
नकल – copy
नकद – cash
In the Middle
ऐनक – eyeglasses
कनक – gold
At the End
बन – forest
वन – forest
टन – ton
जन – people
बटन – button
कान – ear
खान – mine (the thing where you dig in the earth to get metals and other things)
रन – wilderness
दिन – day
मन – heart
चंदन – sandlewood
तीन – three
मोहन – name of a boy
नमकीन – salty
With other vowels
धनिय – coriander
धनुष – a bow
Related Podcasts
Hindi Consonants Bundle – March 2009 – CD 2 Track 7
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(7 votes, average: 3.86 out of 5)
Thanks for another great episode. One request I have for future episodes would be if the gender could be added on the page after the word, since gender plays a big role in sentence structure in Hindi. Maybe something like दिन – day (m)
Also wouldn’t heart be ‘dil’?