कहलनि जे

Reporting What Someone Said

Level 4Sounds Like kahalani jē

Report speech with जे and keep the speaker's own words.

How It Works

The pattern is: who spoke + कहलनि or कहलक + जे + what they said.

Examples:

माय कहलनि जे भात बनि गेल अछि। (Mother said the rice is ready.)
बउआ कहलक जे हमरा भूख लागल अछि। (The little boy said he is hungry; literally, I am hungry.)
नेहा कहलनि जे हम साँझ मे फोन करब। (Neha said she would call in the evening.)

When the person you told is respected, add -यनि: हम कहलियनि जे अहाँ चिन्ता जुनि करू (I told him not to worry).

The pronoun does not shift. If you change हम to ओ, the sentence means something else: that a third person will act.

Use the same pattern after सोचब, बुझब and सुनब.

ओ कहलनि जे हम काल्हि आएब।
He said he would come tomorrow.
हम stays the speaker's own word.
माय कहलनि जे भात बनि गेल अछि।
Mother said the rice is ready.
कहलनि: a respected speaker.
बउआ कहलक जे हमरा भूख लागल अछि।
The little boy said he was hungry.
कहलक: a plain speaker.
नेहा कहलनि जे हम साँझ मे फोन करब।
Neha said she would call in the evening.
The future stays in the report.
हम कहलियनि जे अहाँ चिन्ता जुनि करू।
I told him not to worry.
कहलियनि: the listener is respected.

Shifting the pronoun like English does.
ओ कहलनि जे ओ काल्हि आएत।
ओ कहलनि जे हम काल्हि आएब।
Changing हम to ओ makes it a different person who will come.

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कहलनि जेLevel 4Reporting What Someone Said

Reported speech combines the past कहलनि with the linking word जे.

Patterns that build on this one.

जे

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