Hindi Transliteration for Immediate Family: Recognise Words and Full Sentences
The Hindi material lets you recognise a small set of immediate-family expressions in Roman letters: the word for family, possessive phrases such as “my family” and “my brother”, a question asking who someone is, and full identification sentences naming a brother or father. It is a focused recognition guide, not complete vocabulary.
Start with these expressions
| English | Transliteration | Native script |
|---|---|---|
| Family | parivaar | परिवार |
| My family | mera parivaar | मेरा परिवार |
| My brother | mera bhai | मेरा भाई |
| Who is this? | yeh kaun hai? | यह कौन है? |
| This is my brother | yeh mera bhai hai. | यह मेरा भाई है। |
| This is my father | ye mere pitaji hain. | ये मेरे पिताजी हैं। |
Tell a short family phrase from a complete identification
Use the English meaning as a quick reading test. If it names only a relationship or family group, it is a short noun phrase: “family”, “my family”, and “my brother” do not identify a person in a complete statement. The entry asking who someone is is different again: it is a question, not an answer.
For identification, choose a sentence whose meaning includes “this is” and a relationship. The brother and father entries both provide that fuller structure, so they are the items to recognise when a photograph or person is being identified. The dictionary passages support the component meanings of “this” [1] and “my” [3], but they do not establish a general pronunciation rule or broader conversational coverage.
Notice that the two complete identification entries use different forms for the demonstrative, including different Devanagari forms. Treat those as the forms provided for recognition; do not infer from this small set that the spelling difference marks a universal pronunciation, regional pattern, or usage rule. The safest learner habit is to match the whole English meaning, not to build a sentence by guessing from isolated words.
[1] Source: dsal.uchicago.edu.
[3] Source: dsal.uchicago.edu.
Try it
You are showing a photograph and want to identify the person as your brother. Which expression gives the complete identification rather than only the relationship phrase?
Choose your answer before reading on.
Check your answer:
Use expression 5 in the table above.
Choose the expression whose English meaning includes both “this is” and “my brother”. The shorter relationship-only wording names your brother but does not make the complete identification.
Cover the English meanings and sort each rendered item into three groups: family label, short possessive phrase, or complete question or sentence. Then practise recognising the complete brother and father identifications without relying on the Latin spelling alone.
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