Causative Verbs: have/get something done

have/get + object + participle vs. Hindi's built-in -वा- causative

Hindi actually has a dedicated causative verb morphology of its own: adding -वा- to a verb root turns it into 'have/get someone else do X' — करना (to do) becomes करवाना (to have done), काटना (to cut) becomes कटवाना (to have cut), रंगना (to paint) becomes रंगवाना (to have painted). This is even more compact than English: Hindi folds the whole 'I arranged for someone else' idea into the verb itself, while English needs a separate helper verb plus the object plus a past participle — have or get, followed by the object and the past participle of the actual action (cut, painted, fixed). Compare मैंने बाल कटवाए (one causative verb) with I had my hair cut (four separate words working together); get is slightly more casual than have but works the same way.