Saying who and where you are
🎯 Introduce yourself and say where you live and study.
🗣️ Say these out loud
- मी पुण्यात राहतो — mi Punyaat raahato 🔊 mee POON-yaat RAA-ha-to I live in Pune. (said by a male) A female says राहते raahate. पुण्यात = in Pune — Marathi glues 'in' onto the word as an ending, where Hindi uses a separate में.
- मी विद्यार्थी आहे — mi vidyarthi aahe 🔊 mee vid-YAR-thee aa-hay I am a student. आहे serves for am, is and are with मी and तू.
- मला मराठी येते — mala Marathi yete 🔊 ma-LA ma-RAA-thee YAY-tay I know Marathi. Literally 'to me Marathi comes' — the same shape as Hindi मुझे हिंदी आती है.
- थोडं थोडं — thoda thoda 🔊 THO-da THO-da a little मला थोडं थोडं मराठी येतं — I know a little Marathi. The sentence that makes people help you.
- तुम्ही कुठून आलात? — tumhi kuthun aalaat? 🔊 toom-HEE koo-THOON aa-LAAT Where have you come from? कुठे kuthe = where, कुठून = from where.
- मी इथेच आहे — mi ithech aahe 🔊 mee i-THAYCH aa-hay I am right here. The -च ending means 'itself, exactly' and is used constantly: आत्ताच (just now), तूच (you yourself).
Read every line aloud twice before moving on. The mouth learns a language, not the eye.
🔍 The little words become endings
Where Hindi writes a separate postposition, Marathi often fuses it onto the noun. This makes Marathi look harder on the page and simpler in the mouth.
- Hindi घर में → Marathi घरात (in the house)
- Hindi मेज़ पर → Marathi टेबलावर (on the table)
- Hindi राम को → Marathi रामला (to Ram)
- The endings: -त/-आत (in), -वर (on), -ला (to), -हून (from).
🌍 Among the people
Marathi speakers switch to Hindi with outsiders out of courtesy — but answering in even broken Marathi changes the temperature of the conversation at once.
🔁 Practise today
- Say where you live, using the -आत ending.
- Convert five Hindi phrases with में and पर into Marathi endings.
- Learn मला, तुला, त्याला, आम्हाला — to me, to you, to him, to us.
