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Emphatic Particles April 20, 2012

Negative Particles
तो The particle ‘तो‘ has two main usages in Hindi:
भी
यूँ 1. A conjunction meaning ‘so’
ही 2. An emphatic particle
[-] Miscellaneous
[-] Affixes At the beginning of a sentence, तो is used an an introductory conjunction, like “so” in English:
वाला
Echo Words तो आप क्या िकया आज – “So, what did you do today?”
Pair Words
Interjections If तो immediately succeeds a word, it emphasizes the previous word. More specifically, it contrasts the previous word or phrase
with some other part of the same context. This usage is very subtle.
Adverbs
Conditional Sentences
खाना अच्छा तो है, पर बहुत महंगा है – “The food is good, but it is very expensive”. In this example, तो contrasts “good” with
[-] Postpositions
“expensive”.
को
Conjunctions
खाना तो अच्छा है, पर चाय अच्छा नहीं है – “The food is good, but the tea isn’t” . In this example, तो contrasts “food” with “tea” – one
[-] Verbals
is good, the other is not.
[-] Participles
Verb Stem + रहा
Often the contrast is not explicit, and can be somewhat vague:
Habitual Participles
Future Participles
आज तो काम कर रहा है – “Today he is working” (but yesterday?)
Passive Participles
Perfect Participles
वह कल दफ्तर में तो थी – “She was in the office yesterday” (but today she is somewhere else?)
Imperfective Participles
Conjunctive Participles
Often तो can have the sense of “at least” as in:
Infinitives
[-] Verbs ये तो बता दो – “At least tell me this”
Participle + जाना
Compulsion Idioms
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सकना Dinesh Ajay • 3 years ago
देना "मैं तो कुछ भी" I don't understand how this sentence translates to "I do anything". What is the meaning of the word 'तो'
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Imal Kavinda Wickramasingha > Dinesh Ajay • 2 years ago • edited
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Passive Voice I think you sentence is incomplete, that's why it doesn't make a lot of sense. If it was "मैं तो कुछ भी करता", It would
mean something like "I do anything" but actually it has a sense like "I don't know about any others but I
Causative Verbs
(definitely) do anything". That is because "मैं" is emphasized by "तो" here. It adds the sense that that the speaker
Iterative Constructions is talking with certitude about himself but not so certain about any other, or more like he doesn't care about what
Continuity any other would do or don't.
Multiple Subjects
Then the "भी" particle emphasizes "कुछ" (some/something) here, which enhances its meaning to "anything".
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Indirect Verb Constructions आिदत्य • 5 years ago
Compound Verbs If it's "this," shouldn't it be "यह तो बता दो"? Sorry if this seems petty, I just want to know if I'm missing something here.
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Future Perfect hindilanguage.info Mod > आिदत्य • 5 years ago

Future Continuous Yes, you're right. It was a typographical error. Hindi speakers pronounce यह and ये the same. Also, in
Future Perfect Continuous transliterated Hindi, many people just write "ye".
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