MarkStanfill

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Again, welcome! —Aryamanarora ^{(मुझसे बात करो)} 20:29, 2 April 2017 (UTC)

Hindi

I've seen that you've made quite a few Hindi entries with manual transliteration. Wiktionary transliterates Hindi automatically with Module:hi-translit, so that isn't necessary. Thanks for your contributions! —Aryamanarora ^{(मुझसे बात करो)} 20:30, 2 April 2017 (UTC)

{{hi-IPA}} अपने आप उच्चारण generate कर लेता है; कृपया खिलवाना (khilvānā) पृष्ठ पे मेरे बदलाव देखिए। —Aryaman^{A (मुझसे बात करें • योगदान)} 00:08, 21 November 2017 (UTC)

Outstanding! Thank you. — This unsigned comment was added by MarkStanfill (talk • contribs).

No problem! btw, are you a native Hindi speaker? —Aryaman^{A (मुझसे बात करें • योगदान)} 22:24, 21 November 2017 (UTC)

Still in the intermediate phase. I can read/speak Hindi and Urdu, as well as a few other languages (Spanish, French, smatterings of others). I find editing Wiktionary really adds to my understanding of words.

Cool! I suppose the username should have given it away. I agree, I often add words I learn in poetry here. —Aryaman^{A (मुझसे बात करें • योगदान)} 00:23, 24 November 2017 (UTC)

नुकसान (nuksān)

Hi! Consensus has been to keep the definitions at the form with the nuqta (नुक़सान (nuqsān)), even though the nuqta is commonly dropped. नुकसान (nuksān) is labelled as an alternate form. —Aryaman^{A (मुझसे बात करें • योगदान)} 23:35, 26 November 2017 (UTC)

रात का क्लब (rāt kā klab)

This is never used in Hindi and has very few results on Google, so I'll be deleting it. नाइटक्लब (nāiṭaklab) would be the correct term. —Aryaman^{A (मुझसे बात करें • योगदान)} 19:41, 7 December 2017 (UTC)

That's fine. I was going off a few searches and instances in 3rd party dictionaries. Thanks for the catch.

No problem! —Aryaman^{A (मुझसे बात करें • योगदान)} 00:03, 9 December 2017 (UTC)