A Door Into Hindi: Lesson 11

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“I would like you to come to my house.”

There is no equivalent construction in Hindi for the above sentence. This idea would be expressed as:

“My request is that you come to my house.”

मेरी प्रार्थना है कि आप मेरे घर आएँ / आइये ।

(Note that in Hindi, “request” प्रार्थना is the subject of the sentences.)

The action that you are requesting the person to do must always be in the operative tense, with one exception: if the person after कि is आप, then you may use the polite imperative form of the verb in place of the optative.

See Snell's Teach Yourself Hindi (2000) Section