🇮🇳 → 🇬🇧
How easy is English for Hindi speakers?
Going from Hindi to English (English) has a composite linguistic distance of 77% (curated lexical data). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.
77% distance
FSI Cat I (Easiest) — 600–750 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%
Devanagari → Latin
Genealogical kinship
40%
Indo-European ↔ Indo-European
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Sample sentences side-by-side
How everyday sentences look in both languages:
🇮🇳 Hindi
The mother and father live with their daughter and son in a small town.
🇬🇧 English
माँ और पिता अपनी बेटी और बेटे के साथ एक छोटे शहर में रहते हैं।
🇮🇳 Hindi
Three brothers live in the new house near the river.
🇬🇧 English
तीन भाई नदी के पास नए घर में रहते हैं।
Curated cognates between Hindi and English
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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