verb form dekh-ave? Can anyone tell me what the verb-form "dekh-ave" (derived from dekhna???) means? It's in a poem i'm trying to translate and I just can't find it in any of my grammars. I stumbled over the form quite often already in songs but never gave much thought to what it actually means. It would be great if anyone could help me out here!@Anant: Well it's a little tricky because the poem i translate comes from a 16th century southern dialect of Hindi and i'm not sure if i'll be able to make much sense of it anyways there's also some urdu words mixed in there :( But anyways, these are the lines (don't mind the strange signs, it's the transliteration my prof makes me use): dhekhāveṉ arat hat nayan sūṉ to kariʼe falak khol khiṛkiyāṉ malak lak naẓāre But i've seen the word in other contexts too. There's a movie from 1914 with the title "Nasik Trimbak Yethil Dekhave". Then there's a song called "Dekhave Laltain Baar Ke" from an album called "Fagun Mein Faate Choli". Could it be, that this is some dialectal form anyways? Or is it Punjabi? I'm totally confused.