Result Clauses: si...que, tellement...que, si bien que
Result Clauses: si...que, tellement...que, si bien que
Hindi wraps its own 'so...that' around an adjective with इतना...कि — वह इतना थका हुआ है कि सो रहा है ('he's so tired that he's falling asleep') — staying in the ordinary indicative throughout, just like French's si...que/tellement...que. Hindi also keeps result and purpose grammatically separate, the same clean split French makes between si bien que (result, indicative) and pour que (purpose, subjonctif) — Hindi's इसलिए marks pure result, while ताकि marks intended purpose and pulls in Hindi's own subjunctive.
Grammar Comparison
व्याकरण तुलना
si + adjective + que / tellement + que: so...that — Hindi's इतना...कि works the same way
Il est si fatigué qu'il s'endort. (He's so tired that he's falling asleep)
वह इतना थका हुआ है कि सो रहा है।
si...que (formal/written) and tellement...que (more spoken and everyday) both wrap around an adjective or adverb to build 'so [adjective] that [result]'. Hindi's इतना...कि does the identical job — इतना ('so/this much') before the adjective, कि ('that') introducing the result — वह इतना थका हुआ है कि सो रहा है. With a noun instead of an adjective, French switches to tellement de + noun + que ('there was so much noise that...'); Hindi does the same with इतना ज़्यादा + noun + कि. And just as French's result clause after que stays in the indicatif (s'endort, not s'endorme), Hindi's clause after कि here also stays perfectly ordinary — सो रहा है, no subjunctive involved — matching French's choice to keep this particular pattern out of subjonctif territory.
si bien que vs. pour que — Hindi already keeps result and purpose apart, the same way French does
Il a plu toute la nuit, si bien que la rivière a débordé. (result) vs. Il a travaillé dur pour qu'il réussisse. (purpose, subjonctif)
पूरी रात बारिश हुई, इसलिए नदी में बाढ़ आ गई। (परिणाम) बनाम उसने मेहनत की ताकि वह सफल हो जाए। (उद्देश्य)
si bien que links two full clauses to report one event as the natural consequence of another, staying in the ordinary indicatif — it is never confused with pour que, which marks an intended goal and requires the subjonctif. Hindi already makes exactly this same distinction with two different words: इसलिए ('therefore/so') links a pure result, with an ordinary verb on both sides (आ गई, indicative), while ताकि ('so that/in order that') marks an intended purpose and pulls in Hindi's own subjunctive, हो जाए. Because Hindi already keeps result (इसलिए) and purpose (ताकि) grammatically distinct, French's split between si bien que and pour que isn't a new concept to learn — it's one you can map almost directly onto a distinction your own language already makes.
Vocabulary
शब्दावली
- Hindi
- इतना...किitnā...ki
- English
- so...that
- Hindi
- इतना...कि (बोलचाल में)itnā...ki (bolcāl meñ)
- English
- so...that (spoken)
- Hindi
- इतना ज़्यादाitnā zyādā
- English
- so much / so many
- Hindi
- इसलिएisliye
- English
- so that / with the result that
- Hindi
- इतनी ठंड है कि कोई बाहर नहीं जाता।itnī ṭhanḍ hai ki koī bāhar nahīñ jātā
- English
- It's so cold that no one goes out.
- Hindi
- उसके पास इतना काम था कि वह सोई नहीं।uske pās itnā kām thā ki vah soī nahīñ
- English
- She had so much work that she didn't sleep.