Daily Life

Your day in Urdu 🌅

This module is about **daily life**: the times of day, the things you do, and the places you go. As before, every word is shown three ways: the **script**, the **sound** (a simple transliteration in brackets), and the **English**. Urdu reads from **right to left**.

Times of day 🕐

The parts of the day: - **دن (din)** = day - **صبح (subah)** = morning - **شام (sham)** = evening - **رات (raat)** = night

Match each word to its meaning

Everyday activities 🍽️

Some common things you do each day (in the "to do" form): - **کھانا (khana)** = to eat - **پینا (peena)** = to drink - **سونا (sona)** = to sleep - **جانا (jana)** = to go

Match each verb to its meaning

Spot the verb

Which word means "to eat"?

• کھانا (khana)
• پینا (peena)
• سونا (sona)
• جانا (jana)

Places 🏫

Two places that fill a day: - **اسکول (iskool)** = school - **گھر (ghar)** = house / home So اسکول جانا (iskool jana) means "to go to school".

Spot the word

Which word means "school"?

• اسکول (iskool)
• گھر (ghar)
• صبح (subah)
• دن (din)

Actions, not things

Select the THREE words that are activities (verbs).

• کھانا (khana)
• پینا (peena)
• سونا (sona)
• صبح (subah)
• اسکول (iskool)
• دن (din)

A day in order

An interactive activity.

How the writing works 🔤

Urdu is written in the sloping **Nastaliq** style of the Perso-Arabic script, read from **right to left**, with the letters **joined up**. There are **no capital letters**. Urdu is the same spoken language as Hindi, but Hindi is written in a different script (Devanagari) that reads left to right.

Describe a day

An interactive activity.

The right word

Using the transliteration, complete: "morning" is _____, "school" is _____, "to eat" is _____, and "to sleep" is _____.

Daily life summary

Urdu is written from _____ to left in the Nastaliq style. The word for day is _____, and the word for school is _____. To say to eat, you use _____.