Listen to any Hindi family and you will hear verbs in pairs: kha lo, kar do, gir gaya, so jaao. Learners often ask why two verbs are needed when one would do. The answer is that the second verb adds colour: who benefits, whether the action is complete, whether it happened suddenly. In this episode: • How the pair is built • Lena: for yourself • Dena: for someone else • Jaana: complete, or a change of state • Daalna, baithna, padna • When not to use a pair • A kitchen scene • Practice • Self-check questions with answers Season 3 · Spoken Hindi at Home: the complete self-study course for English speakers. Every Hindi item is given in Devanagari, Hinglish and English. Take the 52-question quiz after listening. Audio voiced with AI from an original script by Dr. Rashmi R Nair.