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"How?" in Hindi: कैसे?

कैसे?kaise?

Say it: KY-seadverb/kɛːseː/

How in Hindi is कैसे? (kaise?). With feminine nouns you hear कैसी (kaisi), and with aap the greeting is aap kaise hain?

Learning a recipe

यह सब्ज़ी कैसे बनाते हैं?

yeh sabzi kaise banaate hain?

How do you make this vegetable dish?
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How to pronounce कैसे?

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KY-se

/kɛːseː/

Kaise is KY-se with a clear ai glide. Keep se light; don't say case like English.

"How?" in Hindi: quick reference

HindiEnglish
कैसे?kaise?how?

Default / masculine / plural.

कैसी?kaisi?how? (f.)

Feminine nouns.

कैसे हैं?kaise hain?how are you? (aap)

Greeting.

किस तरह?kis tarah?in what way?

Manner.

How to use कैसे? in real life

  1. 1Learning a recipe

    यह सब्ज़ी कैसे बनाते हैं?

    yeh sabzi kaise banaate hain?

    How do you make this vegetable dish?

    Process question.

  2. 2Greeting

    नमस्ते, आप कैसे हैं?

    namaste, aap kaise hain?

    Hello, how are you?

    Classic line.

  3. 3Movie opinion

    फ़िल्म कैसी लगी आपको?

    film kaisi lagi aapko?

    How did you find the film?

    Feminine kaisi.

Mistakes English speakers make with कैसे?

Incorrect: Aap kaisa hai?

Correct: Aap kaise hain?

Aap takes plural kaise hain.

Incorrect: Film kaise lagi

Correct: Film kaisi lagi

Film is treated as feminine: kaisi.

Good to know

Aap कैसे हैं? is the polite default greeting. Friends shorten to kaise ho? Manner questions (kaise jaana hai?) fill travel talk. Matching kaisi/kaise to gender is a small skill that makes you sound natural.

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Asking about a metro route

  1. ChatPal

    वहाँ कैसे जाना है?

    vahaan kaise jaana hai?

    How do we get there?

  2. You

    मेट्रो से कैसे पहुंचेंगे, बताइए।

    metro se kaise pahunchenge, bataaiye.

    Please tell me how we'll reach by metro.

  3. ChatPal

    पीली लाइन लीजिए, सीधा है।

    peeli line lijiye, seedha hai.

    Take the yellow line — it's direct.

  4. You

    धन्यवाद! टिकट कैसे लें?

    dhanyavaad! ticket kaise len?

    Thanks! How do we get tickets?

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"How?" in other languages

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Common questions about "How?" in Hindi

Kaise vs kaisi?

Kaise for masculine/plural; kaisi for feminine.

How are you?

Aap kaise hain? / tum kaise ho?

How much?

That's kitna / kitni — different word.

How to go?

Kaise jaana hai?

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