Basic Urdu Lessons - 1.Basic usage of "Main hoon" ( I am )

In this lesson and in my upcoming lessons, I’ll try to help Urdu speaking beginners to understand the basics of speaking Urdu. I’ll use very simple phrases and expressions to help you with Urdu speaking.

 

Basic usage of "Main hoon"

This lesson is about using ‘Main hoon’ (I am). It is used in combination with other words to tell someone about yourself or to describe something you are doing. In following sentences, I have highlighted the words where gender Identification is necessary. Female needs to read the pink highlighted words and male needs to read the blue highlighted words. The pattern of sentences is:

 

Main ________ Hoon.

Where

Main = I (Pronoun)        _________ = informatory words/ status words        Hoon = am (verb) 

 

Main kafi thucka hoa/thucke hoe hoon.               (I’m so tired)

Main uljha hoa/hoe hoon.                                  (I’m confused)

Main khosh hoon.                                             (I’m happy)

Main tay’ees saal ka/ki hoon.                             (I’m twenty three years old)

Main bhooka/bhooki hoon.                                 (I’m hungry)

Main preshan hoon.                                           (I’m nervous)

Main purJosh hoon.                                           (I’m excited)

Main kaam choor raha/rahi hoon.                       (I’m leaving work)

Main Pyasa/Pyasi hoon.                                     (I’m thirsty)

Main Islamabad sy hoon.                                   (I’m from Islamabad)

Main shaded bhooka/bhooki hoon.                      (I’m extremely hungry)

Main bohot khoosh hoon.                                   (I’m very happy)

Main Buri tarha bhooka/bhooki hoon.                  (I’m terribly hungry)

Main bohot zyada purJosh hoon.                         (I am super excited)

Main bohot preshan hoon.                                  (I’m very nervous)

 

 

Note: There is no standard for roman Urdu (Urdu words in English script). So you may see the following forms on internet:

Main = mayn = man

Hoon = Hon = Hn

 

Please submit your comments if you find it helpful, need clarification or find any mistake.

If you want to practice enunciating these phrases or need any other urgent help, you can send me private message or you can also join me on Skype: speak.urdu

My language exchange experience On last weekend, I decided to take one step further to attain another milestone of self revelation. Although, it wasn’t an easy task for me but fortunately I have almost two dozen language exchange partners on Skype to whom I already had few chat sessions. So I decided to talk to them using Skype voice chat. I set my mood status to “Available for voice chat” on Skype so that all my contacts could know about it. I was hardly hoping for anyone to contact me but to my surprise! Eight people showed their interest and made a call on Skype. Few of them were interested in practicing spoken English and others wanted to learn the Urdu language. Initially, it was quite difficult for me to speak and understand their accents because they were from different countries and speaks different languages. But after communicating with first two callers, my ears and tong get used to it and I was on my way to produce the sentences and to convert the talk into meaningful conversation. This was the wonderful experience of my life, experience of not only crossing the fear barrier once again but also being able to communicate with people from different cultural backgrounds. Now! I’m planning to go further to achieve the next milestone of self revelation and decided to continue this practice on alternate weekends or whenever I get free time.