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🇮🇳 Hindi · Fluency Level 3

PART 3 · LESSON 22 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

The Invitation Cards

A printer's shop in Chawri Bazar, two hundred cream cards with gold letters for the shop's hundred years: you are warmly invited, your presence is requested on the auspicious occasion, and the everyday twin of every written word, do come, the occasion, and ji instead of Mister.

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THE STORY

A printer's shop in Chawri Bazar, Old Delhi, on a February morning; the shopkeeper and Noah say the polite you to each other, and the shopkeeper calls him sir.

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शादी का कार्ड है, साहब?shaa-dee kaa kaard hai, saa-hab?Is it a wedding card, sir?
जी नहीं, दुकान के सौ साल का. दो सौ कार्ड, सुनहरे अक्षरों में.jee na-heen, du-kaan ke sau saal kaa. do sau kaard, su-nah-re ak-sha-ron men.No, for a shop's hundred years. Two hundred cards, in gold letters.
आपकी उपस्थिति प्रार्थनीय है.aap-kee u-pas-thi-ti praar-tha-nee-ya hai.your presence is requested
ठीक है. कार्ड पर, शुभ अवसर पर आपकी उपस्थिति प्रार्थनीय है.theek hai. kaard par, shubh av-sar par aap-kee u-pas-thi-ti praar-tha-nee-ya hai.Fine. On the card: on the auspicious occasion, your presence is requested.
शुक्रवार तक, आधा एडवांस.shuk-ra-vaar tak, aa-dhaa ed-vaans.By Friday, half in advance.
सौ साल के मौके परsau saal ke mau-ke paron the occasion of a hundred years
और दरवाज़े पर? सौ साल के मौके पर ज़रूर आइए?aur dar-vaa-ze par? sau saal ke mau-ke par za-roor aa-i-ye?And at the door? On the occasion of a hundred years, do come?
बिल्कुल. और कार्ड पर श्रीमान, दरवाज़े पर जी.bil-kul. aur kaard par shree-maan, dar-vaa-ze par jee.Exactly. And on the card, Mister; at the door, ji.
और सबसे ऊपर: आप सादर आमंत्रित हैं.aur sab-se oo-par: aap saa-dar aa-man-trit hain.And at the very top: you are warmly invited.