Verbs

A verb is a word that denotes an action or the state of the subject.

Verbs in Hindi are divided into two large classes: transitive and intransitive. Intransitive verbs are verbs expressing an action which cannot have any direct object. Transitive verbs are those verbs which require a direct object.

The difference between these two verb classes plays a much more important role in Hindi than it does in English. For example, it determines the sentence construction in the perfect tenses, which is different for transitive and intransitive verbs.

See Also:

• Introduction
• Infinitives
• Intensive (Compound) Verbs
• Causative Verbs
• The Verb 'to be'
• Modal Verbs
• The Passive Voice
• Mood
• The Imperative Mood
• The Conditional Mood
• The Subjunctive Mood
• The Indicative Mood
• The Present Habitual Tense
• The Past Habitual Tense
• The Present Continuous Tense
• The Past Continuous Tense
• The Future Tense
• The Perfect Narrative Tense
• The Perfect Tense
• The Perfect Non-Narrative Tense
• Impersonal Verbal Forms
• Verbal Adverbs
• Participles
• Some Important Hindi Constructions
• Possessive Constructions
• Permissive Construction
• The Must-Constructions
• Types of action
• Word Order