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BSEB Matric English: Translation: Hindi/Urdu to English

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Translation: Hindi/Urdu to English

The translation question gives short Hindi or Urdu sentences and asks for English versions. Marks are awarded for grammar and structure - correct tense, agreement, articles, prepositions and word order - not for literary style. A plain, correct sentence always beats an ambitious, broken one.

A five-step procedure

Read the whole sentence first and identify the main verb and its tense. Then find subject and object and reorder them, since Hindi and Urdu run subject–object–verb while English runs subject–verb–object. Next decide on articles, which Hindi and Urdu often leave unmarked but English requires. Then add the preposition the English verb demands. Finally check number, tense consistency and spelling.

Recurring conversions

Habitual actions take the simple present: "मैं रोज़ स्कूल जाता हूँ" → I go to school every day, with no article before school used institutionally. An action continuing from the past takes the present perfect continuous: "वह दो घंटे से पढ़ रहा है" → He has been studying for two hours. Feelings are expressed with be plus adjective, not with have: "मुझे भूख लगी है" → I am hungry.

Worked example

"कल बारिश होगी" → It will rain tomorrow. Reasoning: the future marker गी gives will; Hindi's बारिश होना needs the dummy subject it in English, since English cannot say "rain will happen" idiomatically; and no article is needed before an uncountable noun used generally.

Traps that cost marks

Keeping Hindi or Urdu word order; dropping a, an and the; writing "since two hours" instead of "for two hours"; translating idioms literally; using the present tense for a completed past action; and forgetting third-person singular -s in the simple present.