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Grandmother’s Birthday

A family gathering for a grandmother’s seventieth birthday.

Plans and obligations with -ना है and -ना था, and the respectful plural for older people: दादी जी आईं, not दादी आई. The text also shows how Hindi names the relatives on each side of the family.

इस रविवार को मेरी दादी जी सत्तर साल की हो गईं। हम उनके लिए कुछ ख़ास करना चाहते थे।

मम्मी ने सुबह से रसोई में खीर और पूरी बनाई। मेरी बहन ने घर को फूलों से सजाया।

दोपहर तक मेरे चाचा, चाची और उनके बच्चे भी आ गए। घर लोगों से भर गया।

शाम को हमने मिठाई बाँटी और मिलकर गाना गाया। दादी जी बहुत ख़ुश हुईं।

दादी जी ने कहा, "आज सब लोग एक साथ हैं, इससे अच्छा तोहफ़ा और क्या हो सकता है?" उस रात हम देर तक बात करते रहे।

Words
93
Sentences
10
Words per sentence
9.3
in the vocabulary
100 %
measured level
A2
Reading time
1 min

The words from A2 up in this text

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Comprehension questions

3 questions on the text. With each answer the sentence it comes from appears — a question whose answer you cannot find in the text tests nothing.

1. What did the mother cook?

2. How did the sister help?

3. What did the grandmother call the best present?