How to Use Hindi in a Sentence

Hindi

noun
Definition of Hindinext
  • The names and ages of the 58 people who died are inscribed in Hindi.
    — Sameer Yasir Elke Scholiers, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2024
  • Both the Tamil and Hindi films have been written by Kanagaraj.
    — Sweta Kaushal, Forbes, 2 Apr. 2023
  • Lee added that Spanish and Hindi remakes are also in the works, and that the remake rights have also been sold in the Middle East.
    — Liz Shackleton, Deadline, 5 Oct. 2024
  • But a shift has taken place, into the Hindi heartland and more remote states.
    — Patrick Frater, Variety, 24 July 2024
  • The Hindi remake of Vikram Vedha, has also had a dismal show at the box office.
    — Sweta Kaushal, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2022
  • In one video, a man in a powder blue blazer rattles off this news, switching between Hindi and English.
    — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 21 Feb. 2024
  • The app, whose name is a derogatory Hindi phrase for Muslim women, encouraged users to bid on the women in a fake auction.
    — NBC News, 16 Jan. 2022
  • In India, the Hindi version of the film made an opening collection of nearly $1 million.
    — Sweta Kaushal, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024
  • The Hindi film has roughly grossed $5.7 million globally on day one of the release and made $4.9 million in the Indian market.
    — Sweta Kaushal, Forbes, 13 Aug. 2023
  • Her mother, a homemaker who spoke no English, mailed her three-line recipes in Hindi with sparse instructions: A little of this masala.
    — Mayukh Sen, Washington Post, 27 Nov. 2023
  • But employees reply in their own text boxes: Old Hindi songs.
    — Heather Lanier, Longreads, 10 Jan. 2023
  • According to a decade-old census, Hindi was not the majority language, even though it was spoken by 44% of the people.
    — Mithil Aggarwal, NBC News, 6 Sep. 2023
  • The band’s individual influences range from Sam Cooke to Hindi film music to Bangkok surf rock.
    — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 9 May 2023
  • One such policy is the promotion of Hindi as the sole official language of India.
    — Phillip M. Carter, Fortune, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Apple recently announced plans to add Hindi to its Translate app.
    — Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 27 June 2024
  • Nearby, people sit on the sidewalk speaking languages like Hindi and Russian.
    — Paulina Villegas Luis Antonio Rojas, New York Times, 14 May 2024
  • First-rate, character-rich, lively legal drama, in Hindi and English, often in the same sentence.
    — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2023
  • Ze, who worked as a translator, speaks five languages including Hindi.
    — Andrea Castillo, Los Angeles Times, 24 June 2024
  • Last year, the railways introduced a new collision prevention system known as Kavach, the Hindi word for armor.
    — Bibhudatta Pradhan, Bloomberg.com, 5 June 2023
  • The film is being shot simultaneously in the Tamil, Telugu and Hindi languages.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 2 May 2024
  • That’s when another worker, according to the suit, happened by and heard Varshney speaking Hindi.
    — Roy S. Johnson | [email protected], al, 31 July 2023
  • Dressed in an off-white salwar kameez, with a big pair of round glasses keeping her hair off her face, Gour is suave and confident, and fluently switches between English and Hindi.
    — Nilesh Christopher, WIRED, 30 July 2024
  • Chandamama is a term of endearment toward the Moon in Hindi and other regional languages and is also used in nursery rhymes.
    — Umar Shakir, The Verge, 31 Aug. 2023
  • However, Hindi cinema does command a huge audience, if not the largest, in India.
    — Sucharita Tyagi, Vox, 3 July 2024
  • Without inspiring heroism or tragedy in the narrative and the protagonist, All India Rank manages to engage and does so in one of the warmest ways seen in Hindi cinema.
    — Sweta Kaushal, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
  • This led to a great deal of bitterness and resentment among the Punjabi-speaking Hindu community, who opted for Hindi as a way of opposing that demand.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2023
  • Bharat is also the Hindi word for India and is used interchangeably – both feature on Indian passports for example.
    — Rhea Mogul, CNN, 9 Sep. 2023
  • For example, in one 2015 study, English speakers most easily heard spoken Irish as song, followed by Hindi and Croatian.
    — Ben MacAulay, Popular Science, 22 June 2023
  • For instance, the ganja immortalized in reggae lyrics got its name from the Hindi word for cannabis, gāṁjā, after Indian laborers were taken to Jamaica in the 19th century.
    — Simon Romero Alejandro Cegarra, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2023
  • An Indian American engineer says he was fired last year from his long-time job with a Huntsville missile defense contractor after he was heard speaking Hindi on the telephone.
    — Roy S. Johnson | [email protected], al, 31 July 2023

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