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| nissimb Tetraglot Groupie India tenjikuyamato.blogsp Joined 6422 days ago 79 posts - 102 votes  Speaks: Marathi*, Hindi, English, Japanese Studies: Korean, Esperanto, Indonesian | Message 9 of 10 23 October 2009 at 5:24am | IP Logged |
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I might have caught a cold
Lagta hai mujhe jukam ho gaya. (jukam=cold) (Lit. "It seems that I have caught a cold). If you use "sambhav" or "mumkin" here, it will sound very stiff and odd (Something like "it seemeth that I have caught a cold :D ) 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| lerner Groupie Germany Joined 5826 days ago 51 posts - 79 votes Speaks: Hindi* Studies: EnglishC2, GermanC1, Spanish, Dutch | Message 10 of 10 23 October 2009 at 7:18pm | IP Logged |
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i second nissimb.
the first hindi equivalent that springs to my mind is: "lagta hai mujhe zukaam ho gaya hai". you could substitute the "lagta hai" with "shaayad", that sounds alright too. but that's assuming that you have in fact already caught a cold. the other meaning, somethin like "it was possible for you to have caught a cold", it'll go somethin like "mujhe zukaam ho sakta tha" or "ho sakta hai mujhe zukaam lag/ho jata" "sambhav" is seldom used in common speech and "mumkin" just sounds too urdu-ish. Edited by lerner on 23 October 2009 at 7:23pm 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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