PolyLingo
🇮🇳 Hindi
हिन्दीDevanagari

Politeness & formality (sound respectful fast)

Formality is one of the fastest ways to sound natural in many languages.

What matters most

Very important: आप (formal), तुम (informal), तू (very informal).

  • When in doubt, choose the more polite form.
  • Memorize one polite question pattern and reuse it everywhere.
आप कैसे हैं?
aap kaise hain
How are you? (formal)
तुम कहाँ रहते हो?
tum kahan rahte ho
Where do you live? (informal)
मैं हिंदी सीख रहा हूँ।
main hindi seekh raha hoon
I am learning Hindi.
क्या आप अंग्रेज़ी बोलते हैं?
kya aap angrezi bolte hain
Do you speak English? (formal; verb may change by gender)

Mini challenge

Say your ‘Do you speak…?’ sentence in the polite form, then in the casual form (if your language has both).

Mini‑quiz

Mini-quiz
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Which sentence matches “How are you? (formal)”?