Hindustani declension
Declensions in Hindi and Urdu
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All the case declension paradigms for nouns are shown below.
Some masculine words ending in -ā (like pitā and kartā) retain 'ā' throughout their declension, only adding endings -õ and -o in oblique plural and vocative plural respectively.
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Pronouns
The declension of all the pronouns of Hindi-Urdu are mentioned in the table below:
Personal Pronouns
Demonstrative, Relative, Interrogative Pronouns
1 Rarely used in Urdu.
Possessive Pronouns
Note: The formal 2nd person pronoun आप آپ (āp) does not have possessive pronoun forms, instead the genitive postposition का کا (kā) is used with the oblique case to form the possessive pronoun.
Postpositions
The case-marking postpositions of Hindi-Urdu are mentioned in the table below on the left, and the declensions of the genitive and semblative postpositions are on the right:
Verbs
In the table below, ♦ represents the verbal root and suffixes are added to the verb roots to construct different participles and other verbal forms.