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🇮🇳 Hindi · Fluency Level 2

PART 2 · LESSON 16 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

The old man and the mango tree

Dadi ji cleans rice and tells the old man and the mango tree: a king rode past an old man of ninety planting a sapling, you'll neither see the tree nor eat its mangoes, the mangoes I ate I neither planted nor watered, either my grandson eats these or a traveller, a gold coin and a tree that has fruited already, mangoes and the price of the stones, and sow an acacia and don't wait for mangoes.

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THE STORY

The kitchen of the Sharmas' house in Lajpat Nagar on a winter afternoon, a tray of rice to clean; Dadi ji says the familiar you to Noah, and Noah says the polite you to her.

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राजा गुज़रा. एक बूढ़ा आम का पौधा लगा रहा था.raa-jaa gu-za-raa. ek boo-rhaa aam kaa pau-dhaa la-gaa ra-haa thaa.A king rode past. An old man was planting a mango sapling.
न तुम पेड़ देखोगे, न आम खाओगेna tum per de-kho-ge, na aam khaa-o-geyou'll neither see the tree nor eat the mangoes
राजा हँसा: बाबा, न तुम पेड़ देखोगे, न आम खाओगे.raa-jaa han-saa: baa-baa, na tum per de-kho-ge, na aam khaa-o-ge.The king laughed: grandfather, you'll neither see the tree nor eat the mangoes.
और बूढ़े ने क्या कहा?aur boo-rhe ne kyaa ka-haa?And what did the old man say?
न बोए, न सींचेna bo-e, na seen-cheneither planted nor watered
जो आम मैंने खाए, न बोए, न सींचे.jo aam main-ne khaa-e, na bo-e, na seen-che.The mangoes I ate, I neither planted nor watered.
या तो मेरा पोता खाएगाyaa to me-raa po-taa khaa-e-gaaeither my grandson will eat
ये या तो मेरा पोता खाएगा, या कोई मुसाफ़िर.ye yaa to me-raa po-taa khaa-e-gaa, yaa ko-ee mu-saa-fir.These, either my grandson will eat or some traveller.
राजा ने सिक्का दिया. बूढ़ा बोला: देखो, फल आ गया.raa-jaa ne sik-kaa di-yaa. boo-rhaa bo-laa: de-kho, phal aa ga-yaa.The king gave a coin. The old man said: see, it has fruited already.
आम के आम, गुठलियों के दाम.aam ke aam, guth-li-yon ke daam.Mangoes, and the price of the stones too.

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