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🇮🇳 Hindi · Intermediate Level 1

PART 3 · LESSON 22 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

The Fast Train to Agra

Nizamuddin station at seven and the fast train to Agra with Rohan: we left at six, I left, we arrived at seven, last year I went by car and it took five hours, we came back at night, today we'll arrive in an hour and forty minutes, Delhi stayed behind, did Papa ji go often, every winter for forty years, we've arrived.

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THE STORY

The fast morning train from Nizamuddin station to Agra, the Thursday after Diwali, fog lifting over the fields. Rohan and Noah, friends of the same age, say the familiar you to each other.

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लाजपत नगर से निकले.laaj-pat na-gar se ni-ka-le.left Lajpat Nagar
हम छह बजे लाजपत नगर से निकले.ham chhah ba-je laaj-pat na-gar se ni-ka-le.We left Lajpat Nagar at six.
मैं छह बजे निकला.main chhah ba-je ni-ka-laa.I left at six.
और सात बजे निज़ामुद्दीन पहुँचे.aur saat ba-je ni-zaa-mud-deen pa-hun-che.And reached Nizamuddin at seven.
पिछले साल मैं गाड़ी से गया, पाँच घंटे लगे.pichh-le saal main gaa-ree se ga-yaa, paanch ghan-te la-ge.Last year I went by car; it took five hours.
हम रात को लौटे.ham raat ko lau-te.We came back at night.
एक घंटा चालीस मिनट में.ek ghan-taa chaa-lees mi-nat men.in an hour and forty minutes
आज हम एक घंटा चालीस मिनट में पहुँचेंगे.aaj ham ek ghan-taa chaa-lees mi-nat men pa-hun-chen-ge.Today we'll arrive in an hour and forty minutes.
देखो, खेत! दिल्ली पीछे रह गई.de-kho, khet! dil-lee pee-chhe rah ga-ee.Look, fields! Delhi stayed behind.
क्या पापा जी अक्सर आगरा गए?kyaa paa-paa jee ak-sar aag-raa ga-e?Did Papa ji go to Agra often?

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