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# hindi

«hindi» in Mova's school dictionary: **One of the main languages of India, spoken by hundreds of…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (Hindi; uncountable, a proper noun); adjective (Hindi songs, Hindi films)

### meaning for a pupil

1) One of the main languages of India, spoken by hundreds of millions of people and written in the Devanagari script. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hindi/#m1)

2) (adjective) In or about the Hindi language: «a Hindi film». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hindi/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In geography and languages lessons it is one of the most spoken languages in the world; India also uses English and many other languages. Many English words came from Hindi, such as «shampoo», «jungle», «bungalow», «pyjamas». Bollywood films are often in Hindi.

### examples

- My friend speaks Hindi with her grandparents. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hindi/#x1)
- Hindi is written in the Devanagari script. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hindi/#x2)
- We learned to count to ten in Hindi. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hindi/#x3)
- The word «jungle» comes from Hindi. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hindi/#x4)
- They watched a Hindi film with English subtitles. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hindi/#x5)
- Hindi is one of the official languages of India. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hindi/#x6)
- «Namaste» is a greeting used by Hindi speakers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hindi/#x7)
- In two Sanskrit versions of the "Vetalapanchavinsati,"[302] as well as in the Hindi version,[303] the life-giving charm consists in a spell taken from a book of magic. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hindi/#x8)

### note

Always starts with a capital letter: Hindi. It is a language, not a religion — do not mix up «Hindi» (language) with «Hindu» (a follower of Hinduism). Not everyone in India speaks Hindi as their first language.

### In the corpora

- [English and Mandarin Chinese are the two languages with the most speakers in total, and Hindi and Spanish come next.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/25-languages-and-peoples-on-the-map/11/)
- [In Hindi and some other Indian languages «beta» is a loving word for a child.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/88-vows-oaths-and-promises-in-faith/20/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «hindi» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hindi/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.