Home, Town, Neighbourhood and Region
Talk about your town and region in Urdu. Learn the words for places like a pharmacy, a library and a museum, and features of the wider area, each shown in the Urdu script read right to left.
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Your town and region in Urdu
This module builds your Urdu vocabulary for the places in your town and the features of the wider area. Remember that Urdu is written in the Arabic script and read from right to left. Meet each word paired with its English meaning, then practise until you know them.
Places in town
Start with four places you can visit. Each Urdu word is shown with its English meaning.
In the town or the wider area?
It helps to sort the words into what you find in the town and what you find in the wider area.
Match the Urdu to the English
- دواخانہ
- کتب خانہ
- عجائب گھر
- فیکٹری
- A pharmacy
- A library
- A museum
- A factory
The Urdu word for a library
Which Urdu word means a library?
- کتب خانہ
- دواخانہ
- عجائب گھر
- فیکٹری
More useful words
Two more words are worth knowing. A traffic light is ٹریفک کی بتی, and your local area or region is علاقہ.
Match the Urdu to the English
- دریا
- پُل
- کھیت
- علاقہ
- A river
- A bridge
- A farm
- A region or area
Which are buildings?
Select the TWO words that are buildings you can go into.
- دواخانہ
- کتب خانہ
- دریا
- پُل
A trip to the farm
Put these steps in order for a trip out to the farm.
- Leave your home in the town
- Cross the bridge: پُل
- Arrive at the farm: کھیت
Complete the town
A place to buy medicine is a _____. A place to borrow books is a _____. A place to see old objects and history is a _____. A large body of flowing water is a _____. Something you cross over the river is a _____.
Town words in Urdu
Tap the TWO statements that are TRUE.
- دواخانہ means a pharmacy.
- پُل means a bridge.
- کتب خانہ means a river.
- کھیت means a museum.
Where do you go?
For each situation, choose the correct Urdu word for the place.
- You need some medicine. Where do you go?
- You want to borrow a book. Where do you go?
- You want to see old objects and history. Where do you go?
Your turn: write in Urdu
Write the Urdu for two places in your area, then use the pattern below for each. Write in Urdu script, right to left - this module teaches the script itself, so that is what counts.
- Two buildings you could go into: دواخانہ (a pharmacy), کتب خانہ (a library), عجائب گھر (a museum) or فیکٹری (a factory)
- One feature of the wider area: دریا (a river), پُل (a bridge) or کھیت (a field)
- Say where you go with the postposition میں (in), which FOLLOWS the noun: کتب خانہ میں (in the library)
- Join two of them with اور (and)