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Lesson 59C1

Advanced Phrasal Verbs & Multi-word Verbs

उन्नत वाक्यांश-क्रियाएँ

Some English verbs stack two particles at once, or blend with a preposition into a three-part unit — pushing the phrasal-verb habit from earlier levels to its most compressed form, a role that Hindi's own compound verbs (संयुक्त क्रिया) fill with a main verb plus a light verb instead.

Grammar Comparison

Grammar Comparison

Three-word verbs pack a verb, particle, and preposition into one fixed unit

English

look forward to (anticipate with pleasure — verb + particle + preposition, all fixed together) / come up with (invent, produce an idea)

Hindi (English explanations)

हिंदी में तीन-शब्द वाली क्रिया संरचना नहीं होती — यही भाव प्रायः एक ही क्रिया या संयुक्त क्रिया से व्यक्त होता है (जैसे इंतज़ार करना, सोच निकालना)

Hindi generally expresses these same ideas with a single verb or a compact संयुक्त क्रिया (compound verb) — बेसब्री से इंतज़ार करना for 'look forward to', विचार सोच निकालना for 'come up with' — rather than stacking three separate small words together. Hindi's own compound verbs (उठ जाना, निकाल देना, बना लेना) come closest to English's phrasal-verb habit, pairing a main verb with a light verb (जाना, देना, लेना, निकालना) to add a shade of completion, effort, or direction. But English's three-part units behave as a single fixed unit despite being three separate words — you can't rearrange or partially translate them. At this level, treat each one purely as vocabulary to absorb through exposure, the same discipline you applied to simpler two-word phrasal verbs earlier.

Vocabulary

Vocabulary

look forward tolook FOR-werd too
Hindi (English explanations)
बेसब्री से इंतज़ार करनाbesabrī se intazār karnā
come up withkum up with
Hindi (English explanations)
विचार सोच निकालनाvicār soc nikālnā
put up withpoot up with
Hindi (English explanations)
बर्दाश्त करनाbardāśt karnā
get away withget uh-WAY with
Hindi (English explanations)
बिना सज़ा के बच निकलनाbinā sazā ke bac nikalnā