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🇮🇳 Hindi · Intermediate Level 2

PART 1 · LESSON 8 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

The Spice Market

Khari Baoli, the spice market of Old Delhi, on a crowded morning with Rohan: don't buy the cardamom until you've smelt it, the price won't come down until you take two kilos, unless it's eleven hundred the next shop, as long as you're Rohan's friend, and no yes until the cumin is tasted.

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THE STORY

Khari Baoli, the spice market in Old Delhi, a crowded winter morning; Rohan and Noah use the familiar you with each other and the polite you with the shopkeeper, who says it back.

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जब तक सूँघ न लो, मत खरीदना.jab tak soongh na lo, mat kha-reed-naa.Don't buy it until you've smelt it.
बड़ी इलायची बारह सौ किलो?ba-ree i-laay-chee baa-rah sau ki-lo?The big cardamom, twelve hundred a kilo?
जब तक दो किलो न लेंjab tak do ki-lo na lenuntil you take two kilos
जब तक दो किलो न लें, दाम वही.jab tak do ki-lo na len, daam va-hee.Until you take two kilos, the price stays the same.
थोड़ा कम कीजिए.tho-raa kam kee-ji-e.A little less, please.
जब तक ग्यारह सौ न करें, अगली दुकान.jab tak gyaa-rah sau na ka-ren, ag-lee du-kaan.Unless you make it eleven hundred, the next shop.
जब तक रोहन के दोस्त हैं, ग्यारह सौ.jab tak ro-han ke dost hain, gyaa-rah sau.As long as you're Rohan's friend, eleven hundred.
केसर, जब तक डिब्बा न दिखाए, मत लेना.ke-sar, jab tak dib-baa na di-khaa-e, mat le-naa.The saffron: don't take it until he shows the box.
जब तक डिब्बा न खुले, कैसे देखेंगे?jab tak dib-baa na khu-le, kai-se de-khen-ge?Until the box opens, how will you see?
जब तक ज़ीरा न चखूँ, हाँ नहीं कहूँगा.jab tak zee-raa na cha-khoon, haan na-heen ka-hoon-gaa.I won't say yes until I've tasted the cumin.