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🇮🇳 Hindi · Fluency Level 2

PART 2 · LESSON 14 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

Ten thousand laddoos

Sunday lunch at Lajpat Nagar, Papa ji's wedding order that got away: the shop's biggest order, ten thousand laddoos, big fat ones, last year it was five thousand, a whole week at the stove, one mother wanted red boxes and the other gold, take both, and they took not one: cumin in a camel's mouth, told a hundred times, and once burnt by milk you blow on buttermilk.

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THE STORY

The Sunday table at the Sharmas' house in Lajpat Nagar, the whole family round it; Papa ji and Mummy ji say the familiar you to Noah and to each other, and Noah says the polite you to them.

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बड़े-बड़ेba-re-ba-rebig fat ones
सबसे बड़ा ऑर्डर: दस हज़ार लड्डू, बड़े-बड़े.sab-se ba-raa awr-dar: das ha-zaar lad-doo, ba-re-ba-re.The biggest order: ten thousand laddoos, big fat ones.
पिछले साल पाँच हज़ार थे.pichh-le saal paanch ha-zaar the.Last year it was five thousand.
सारे के सारेsaa-re ke saa-rethe whole lot
दस हज़ार! पूरा हफ़्ता चूल्हे पर, सारे के सारे.das ha-zaar! poo-raa haf-taa chool-he par, saa-re ke saa-re.Ten thousand! A whole week at the stove, the whole lot.
एक माँ को लाल डिब्बे चाहिए थे, दूसरी को सुनहरे.ek maan ko laal dib-be chaa-hi-e the, doos-ree ko su-neh-re.One mother wanted red boxes, the other gold.
एक भी नहींek bhee na-heennot even one
इन्होंने कहा: दोनों ले लो. और उन्होंने एक भी नहीं लिया.in-hon-ne ka-haa: do-non le lo. aur un-hon-ne ek bhee na-heen li-yaa.He said: take both. And they took not even one.
ऊँट के मुँह में ज़ीरा.oont ke munh men zee-raa.Cumin in a camel's mouth.
सौ बार सुनाई है, एक लड्डू भी नहीं बढ़ाया.sau baar su-naa-ee hai, ek lad-doo bhee na-heen ba-rhaa-yaa.I've told it a hundred times and never added one laddoo.

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