{"id":703,"date":"2026-01-10T20:19:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T20:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/india.nadjafeldmann.com\/?page_id=703"},"modified":"2026-01-11T09:16:52","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T09:16:52","slug":"useful-phrases","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/india.nadjafeldmann.com\/?page_id=703","title":{"rendered":"Useful phrases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:center; font-size:28pt\"><strong>Useful phrases<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"page-container\">\n<p> Hyderabad has two (three) prominent Indian languages &#8211; Urdu (Hindi) and Telugu. But the nice thing about big cities in India is that most of the people understand common English words, so when in doubt, just use the English word, and always say numbers in English. Having said that, here are a few useful phrases &#8211; <\/p>\n<div class=\"table-container\">\n<table>\n<tr>\n<th style=\"width:33%\">English<\/th>\n<th style=\"width:33%\">Telugu<\/th>\n<th style=\"width:33%\">Urdu\/Hindi<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Hello<\/td>\n<td>Namaste<\/td>\n<td>Namaste<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Okay<\/td>\n<td>Sare<\/td>\n<td>Theek hai<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Yes<\/td>\n<td>Aunu<\/td>\n<td>Haan<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>No<\/td>\n<td>Kadu<\/td>\n<td>Nahi<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Sorry<br \/>(Stick to the english word)<\/td>\n<td>Kshaminchandi<\/td>\n<td>Maaf kar dijiye<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Thank you<br \/>(Stick to the english word) <\/td>\n<td>Dhanyavadalu<\/td>\n<td>Shukriya \/ Dhanyavad<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Don\u2019t want it<br \/>(Casual and polite version for street sellers, etc.)<\/td>\n<td>Oddu<\/td>\n<td>Nahi chahiye<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>No chilli<\/td>\n<td>Karam oddu<\/td>\n<td>Teekha nahi chahiye<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Less chilli<\/td>\n<td>Karam takkuva<\/td>\n<td>Kam teekha chahiye<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Where?<\/td>\n<td>Ekkada?<\/td>\n<td>Kaha?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p>Pleasantries like \u201cGood day\u201d, \u201cGood morning\u201d, \u201cEn guete\u201d, etc., are uncommon in India, so if you feel like saying these, stick to the English versions, and people will understand you.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Useful phrases Hyderabad has two (three) prominent Indian languages &#8211; Urdu (Hindi) and Telugu. But the nice thing about big cities in India is that&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/gallery-mine.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-703","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/india.nadjafeldmann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/india.nadjafeldmann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/india.nadjafeldmann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/india.nadjafeldmann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/india.nadjafeldmann.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=703"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/india.nadjafeldmann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":736,"href":"https:\/\/india.nadjafeldmann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/703\/revisions\/736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/india.nadjafeldmann.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}