Last reviewed on 27 August 2026 Translating a single word from English to Hindi is easy. Translating a whole sentence is where it goes wrong — because Hindi doesn't just swap the words, it reorders them. This page gives you sixty complete English sentences with their Hindi translation in Devanagari and a romanised pronunciation, grouped by the kind of sentence they are, and then explains the handful of rules that let you build your own instead of hunting for a match. If you only need one sentence translated right now, paste it into the English to Hindi translator and come back here to check the result reads the way you intended. Fixed expressions you'll reuse constantly — greetings, prices, directions — are collected on the common phrases page . The one rule that changes everything: word order English is a subject–verb–object language: I (subject) read (verb) the book (object). Hindi is subject–object–verb : the verb goes last, always. Two more consequences follow from this, and between them they explain most bad machine translations: Prepositions become postpositions. English puts them before the noun (" to Delhi", " with my friend"); Hindi puts them after ( dillī ko , mere dost ke sāth ). The verb agrees with gender. "I go" is main jātā hūn if the speaker is male and main jātī hūn if female. A translator that can't see who is speaking guesses — usually masculine. The pronouns and verb forms page lays out the full pattern. Everyday statements Notice mujhe yah gānā pasand hai — literally "to me this song is pleasing". Hindi expresses liking, needing and feeling with this "to me" construction rather than with a verb like "like". Translate "I like X" word by word and you get something a Hindi speaker would not say. Yes/no questions in Hindi are usually marked by putting kyā (क्या) at the front — but the same word also means "what", so kyā at the start signals a yes/no question and kyā later in the sentence asks "what". Word order does the disambiguating that intonation does in English. Requests and polite sentences Hindi has three levels of "you": tū (intimate or rude, best avoided by learners), tum (friendly, for peers and juniors) and āp (respectful). Every sentence below uses āp , which is the safe default with strangers, elders, staff and anyone senior to you. One caution about kripayā (कृपया): it is the dictionary word for "please", but in spoken Hindi it sounds formal, almost written. The politeness is usually carried by the verb ending itself — baiṭhie already means "please sit". Machine translation adds kripayā to every "please" it sees, which is one of the easiest ways to spot translated Hindi. Negative sentences and past tense Hindi has two words for "not". Nahīn (नहीं) negates statements; mat (मत) negates commands. "Don't go" is mat jāo , never nahīn jāo . And notice kal (कल) in two of the sentences above — it means both "yesterday" and "tomorrow", with the verb tense telling you which. That ambiguity is real, not a translation error. Sentences with numbers, prices and time Phone numbers and long figures are read digit by digit, exactly as in English. Ages take sāl kā for a man and sāl kī for a woman. Every number word used above, from do to pachchīs , is in the full Hindi numbers 1 to 100 table . Why a machine translation of your sentence may read wrong If you translated an English sentence and a Hindi speaker told you it sounded odd, the cause is almost always one of five things:

Gender. The verb ending carries the speaker's or subject's gender, and the English original doesn't say. "I am ready" comes back as main taiyār hūn either way, but "I went" is gayā (male) or gaī (female). The wrong "you". Automatic output tends to default to āp , which is safe with strangers but stiff between friends, or to tum , which can sound blunt to someone senior. Idioms taken literally. "Break a leg", "piece of cake", "keep in touch" — these translate into confusing Hindi. Say the plain meaning instead and translate that. Missing context in fragments. A two-word input has no grammar to work with. "Right" could be a direction, a correction, or agreement, and each is a different Hindi word. English words that Hindi keeps. Train , mobile , office , ticket are normally said in English inside a Hindi sentence. A translation that replaces every one of them with a Sanskrit-derived equivalent is technically correct and sounds bookish. The fix for all five is the same: write the English out as a complete, plain, unambiguous sentence before translating it. The common translation mistakes page works through each of these with more examples. How to build your own sentence Once the pattern is visible you can assemble sentences instead of looking them up. Start from this frame: [who] + [when / where] + [what] + [verb] + [है / हैं / हूँ] main (मैं) = I · ham (हम) = we · āp (आप) = you · vah (वह) = he/she/it Time and place words go early: āj (today), kal (yesterday/tomorrow), yahān (here), vahān (there), ghar par (at home). The verb goes last, and the "to be" ending matches the subject: hūn with main , hain with ham and āp , hai with vah . So "I am at home today" assembles as main + āj + ghar par + hūn — मैं आज घर पर हूँ। Swap one slot at a time and you have dozens of sentences from a single frame. The pronouns and verb forms page gives the complete set of endings. Where to go next Translate your own text with the free English to Hindi translator , then check the output against the patterns on this page. The common phrases reference covers 100+ fixed expressions for travel, shopping, food and emergencies. The Hindi pronouns and verb forms page is the next step if the verb endings above are what's slowing you down. The Learn Hindi guide starts from the Devanagari alphabet if you can't yet read the middle column. The Hindi numbers reference covers counting, prices and large numbers like lakh and crore.