🇬🇧 → 🇮🇳
How easy is Hindi for English speakers?
Going from English to Hindi (हिन्दी) has a composite linguistic distance of 77% (curated lexical data). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.
77% distance
FSI Cat III — ~1,100 hours
Lexical similarity
12%
Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.
Grammatical distance
43%
Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.
Phonological similarity
0%
Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.
Writing-system match
0%
Latin → Devanagari
Genealogical kinship
40%
Indo-European ↔ Indo-European
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Sample sentences side-by-side
How everyday sentences look in both languages:
🇬🇧 English
The mother and father live with their daughter and son in a small town.
🇮🇳 Hindi
माँ और पिता अपनी बेटी और बेटे के साथ एक छोटे शहर में रहते हैं।
🇬🇧 English
Three brothers live in the new house near the river.
🇮🇳 Hindi
तीन भाई नदी के पास नए घर में रहते हैं।
Curated cognates between English and Hindi
Word pairs that share a common etymological root — instantly recognisable across both languages:
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mother
mother ↔ माता (mātā)
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father
father ↔ पिता (pitā)
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three
three ↔ तीन (tīn)
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