English to Hindi Sentences: 60 Translated Examples
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.
| English | Word-for-word Hindi order | Hindi |
|---|---|---|
| I read the book. | I book read. | मैं किताब पढ़ता हूँ। main kitāb paṛhtā hūn |
| She is drinking tea. | She tea drinking is. | वह चाय पी रही है। vah chāy pī rahī hai |
| We are going to Delhi. | We Delhi to going are. | हम दिल्ली जा रहे हैं। ham dillī jā rahe hain |
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
| English sentence | Hindi | Pronunciation |
|---|---|---|
| My name is Rahul. | मेरा नाम राहुल है। | merā nām rāhul hai |
| I am from India. | मैं भारत से हूँ। | main bhārat se hūn |
| I don't speak Hindi very well. | मैं हिंदी अच्छी तरह नहीं बोलता। | main hindī achchhī tarah nahīn boltā |
| I am learning Hindi. | मैं हिंदी सीख रहा हूँ। | main hindī sīkh rahā hūn |
| This is my friend. | यह मेरा दोस्त है। | yah merā dost hai |
| I live in Mumbai. | मैं मुंबई में रहता हूँ। | main mumbaī mein rahtā hūn |
| I am a teacher. | मैं एक शिक्षक हूँ। | main ek shikshak hūn |
| The food is very good. | खाना बहुत अच्छा है। | khānā bahut achchhā hai |
| I am very tired today. | मैं आज बहुत थका हूँ। | main āj bahut thakā hūn |
| It is raining. | बारिश हो रही है। | bārish ho rahī hai |
| I have two brothers. | मेरे दो भाई हैं। | mere do bhāī hain |
| The shop is closed today. | दुकान आज बंद है। | dukān āj band hai |
| I like this song. | मुझे यह गाना पसंद है। | mujhe yah gānā pasand hai |
| I will call you tomorrow. | मैं आपको कल फ़ोन करूँगा। | main āpko kal phone karūngā |
| We are waiting outside. | हम बाहर इंतज़ार कर रहे हैं। | ham bāhar intazār kar rahe hain |
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.
Questions
| English sentence | Hindi | Pronunciation |
|---|---|---|
| What is your name? | आपका नाम क्या है? | āpkā nām kyā hai? |
| How are you? | आप कैसे हैं? | āp kaise hain? |
| Where are you from? | आप कहाँ से हैं? | āp kahān se hain? |
| How much does this cost? | इसकी कीमत क्या है? | iskī kīmat kyā hai? |
| Where is the railway station? | रेलवे स्टेशन कहाँ है? | relve steshan kahān hai? |
| What time is it? | क्या समय हुआ है? | kyā samay huā hai? |
| Do you speak English? | क्या आप अंग्रेज़ी बोलते हैं? | kyā āp angrezī bolte hain? |
| Can you help me? | क्या आप मेरी मदद कर सकते हैं? | kyā āp merī madad kar sakte hain? |
| What does this mean? | इसका मतलब क्या है? | iskā matlab kyā hai? |
| Where are you going? | आप कहाँ जा रहे हैं? | āp kahān jā rahe hain? |
| Why did you say that? | आपने ऐसा क्यों कहा? | āpne aisā kyon kahā? |
| When will you come? | आप कब आएँगे? | āp kab āenge? |
| Is there a hotel nearby? | क्या यहाँ पास में कोई होटल है? | kyā yahān pās mein koī hotal hai? |
| How many people are coming? | कितने लोग आ रहे हैं? | kitne log ā rahe hain? |
| Whose book is this? | यह किसकी किताब है? | yah kiskī kitāb hai? |
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.
| English sentence | Hindi | Pronunciation |
|---|---|---|
| Please sit down. | कृपया बैठिए। | kripayā baiṭhie |
| Please speak slowly. | कृपया धीरे बोलिए। | kripayā dhīre bolie |
| Could you say that again? | क्या आप फिर से कह सकते हैं? | kyā āp phir se kah sakte hain? |
| Excuse me, I have a question. | माफ़ कीजिए, मेरा एक सवाल है। | māf kījie, merā ek savāl hai |
| Thank you very much for your help. | आपकी मदद के लिए बहुत धन्यवाद। | āpkī madad ke lie bahut dhanyavād |
| I am sorry, I did not understand. | माफ़ कीजिए, मैं समझा नहीं। | māf kījie, main samjhā nahīn |
| Please wait a moment. | कृपया एक पल रुकिए। | kripayā ek pal rukie |
| May I come in? | क्या मैं अंदर आ सकता हूँ? | kyā main andar ā saktā hūn? |
| Please write it down for me. | कृपया इसे मेरे लिए लिख दीजिए। | kripayā ise mere lie likh dījie |
| Nice to meet you. | आपसे मिलकर खुशी हुई। | āpse milkar khushī huī |
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
| English sentence | Hindi | Pronunciation |
|---|---|---|
| I don't know. | मुझे नहीं पता। | mujhe nahīn patā |
| He is not at home. | वह घर पर नहीं है। | vah ghar par nahīn hai |
| Don't worry. | चिंता मत कीजिए। | chintā mat kījie |
| I have never been there. | मैं वहाँ कभी नहीं गया। | main vahān kabhī nahīn gayā |
| I went to the market yesterday. | मैं कल बाज़ार गया। | main kal bāzār gayā |
| We ate together. | हमने साथ में खाना खाया। | hamne sāth mein khānā khāyā |
| She told me the truth. | उसने मुझे सच बताया। | usne mujhe sach batāyā |
| The train was late. | ट्रेन देर से थी। | tren der se thī |
| I forgot my phone at home. | मैं अपना फ़ोन घर पर भूल गया। | main apnā phone ghar par bhūl gayā |
| Nothing happened. | कुछ नहीं हुआ। | kuchh nahīn huā |
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
| English sentence | Hindi | Pronunciation |
|---|---|---|
| It costs fifty rupees. | यह पचास रुपये का है। | yah pachās rupaye kā hai |
| Give me two, please. | मुझे दो दीजिए। | mujhe do dījie |
| That is too expensive. | यह बहुत महँगा है। | yah bahut mahangā hai |
| I will be there at four o'clock. | मैं चार बजे वहाँ पहुँचूँगा। | main chār baje vahān pahunchūngā |
| I have been waiting for ten minutes. | मैं दस मिनट से इंतज़ार कर रहा हूँ। | main das minaṭ se intazār kar rahā hūn |
| My phone number is nine two one … | मेरा फ़ोन नंबर नौ दो एक … है। | merā phone nambar nau do ek … hai |
| I am twenty-five years old. | मैं पच्चीस साल का हूँ। | main pachchīs sāl kā hūn |
| Half a kilo, please. | आधा किलो दीजिए। | ādhā kilo dījie |
| The room is on the third floor. | कमरा तीसरी मंज़िल पर है। | kamrā tīsrī manzil par hai |
| Can you make it a bit cheaper? | थोड़ा कम कीजिए। | thoṛā kam kījie |
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.