Time and days in Hindi
Now, later, tomorrow, what time it opens and one moment please. Play the ten Hindi words against the clock, with a note on how locals really use each one after every answer. All ten are written out below.
All 10 Hindi phrases in this lesson
- अभीa-BHEE
- Now
- बाद मेंbaad MAY
- Later
- आजaaj
- Today
- कलkal
- Tomorrow
- आज रातaaj raat
- Tonight
- कब?kab
- When?
- कितने बजे खुलता है?KIT-nay BA-jay KHUL-ta hai
- What time does it open?
- एक मिनटek MI-nat
- One moment, please
- मिनटMI-nat
- Minutes
- घंटेGHAN-tay
- Hours
Abhi means now; "abhi abhi" means just this moment. But "abhi aata hoon" (coming right now) is elastic, cousin to the Spanish ahora. "Do minute" (two minutes) is similarly poetic.
Baad mein karenge: we will do it later. Time in India is a flowing river, not a railway timetable, except for the actual railways, which are surprisingly punctual.
Aaj kal (today-yesterday) means "these days": aaj kal sab online hai, these days everything is online.
The famous one: kal means BOTH tomorrow and yesterday, direction supplied by the verb tense. A word that shrugs at linear time, which explains a lot. Parson is two days away, either direction.
Heard constantly. It rarely means sixty seconds.