A Door Into Urdu: Lesson 11

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1.Requests

2.“Whether”

3.Conditional Sentences

4.Future Imperatives

5."To have to"

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11.1

Requests

پرارتھنا

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“I would like you to come to my house.”

There is no equivalent construction in Urdu for the above sentence. This idea would be expressed as:

“My request is that you come to my house.”

میری پرارتھنا ہے کہِ آپ میرے گھر آ ئیں / آئیّے ۔

(Note that in Urdu, “request” پرارتھنا is the subject of the sentences.)

The action that you are requesting the person to do must always be in the operative tense, with one exception: if the person after کہ is آپ , then you may use the polite imperative form of the verb in place of the optative.

See Snell's Teach Yourself Hindi (2000)
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