रूठना (roothnaa)

verb One core sense: to sulk or be upset/offended with someone, usually in a mild, affectionate, or emotionally-invested way rather than a formal 'anger' word.
Sense 1 : to sulk, to be upset/offended with someone (often affectionately, expecting to be coaxed back)
verb, intransitive Takes से (se) for the person one is sulking with: वह मुझसे रूठ गई (vah mujhse rooth gaii, 'she got upset with me').
Synonyms: नाराज़ होना (naaraaz honaa), खिंचना (khinchnaa, rare, extended sense), मुँह फुलाना (munh phulaanaa, colloquial, more physical/visual image)
Frequency: high
Cultural Note: रूठना (roothnaa) is a beloved word in Hindi film songs and family life alike -- think of a child refusing to eat because a parent scolded them, or lovers in a song trading रूठना (roothnaa) and मनाना (manaanaa, 'to coax/appease') back and forth. The word assumes an entire cultural script: someone sulks, and the other person is expected to win them back with patience and affection, not logic or apology alone. It pairs so tightly with मनाना (manaanaa) that Hindi speakers often say the two words in the same breath, like rooठ-मनाना (roothnaa-manaanaa) as a set phrase for the whole emotional dance.
Common Mistakes: 1) Learners often reach for नाराज़ होना (naaraaz honaa) for every kind of annoyance, but रूठना (roothnaa) carries a softer, more relational, often childlike or romantic flavor -- it implies the other person is expected to notice and make up, not just that someone is angry. 2) The person you are upset with is marked with से (se), not पर (par) or को (ko) -- मुझसे रूठना (mujhse roothnaa), not मुझ पर रूठना. 3) रूठना (roothnaa) is intransitive and almost always appears with जाना (jaanaa) as a compound (रूठ जाना, rooth jaanaa) to mark the completed emotional shift -- using the bare verb alone in past tense can sound incomplete to native ears.
Sample Sentences:
छोटी बच्ची खाना खाने से रूठ गई। The little girl got sulky and refused to eat.
(chhotii bachchii khaanaa khaane se rooth gaii।)
Register: Casual -- Mood: Indicative -- Aspect: Perfective -- Tense: Past -- Voice: Active
वह हर छोटी बात पर रूठ जाती है। She sulks over every little thing.
(vah har chhotii baat par rooth jaatii hai।)
Register: Casual -- Mood: Indicative -- Aspect: Habitual -- Tense: Present -- Voice: Active
अरे, रूठो मत, मैं मानने आया हूँ। Hey, don't be upset, I've come to make it up to you.
(are, rootho mat, main maanne aayaa hoon।)
Register: Casual -- Mood: Imperative -- Voice: Active
पता नहीं वह किस बात पर रूठ गया है। I don't know what he's sulking about.
(pataa nahiin vah kis baat par rooth gayaa hai।)
Register: Casual -- Mood: Indicative -- Aspect: Perfective -- Tense: Present -- Voice: Active
अगर मैं देर से आता तो वह ज़रूर रूठ जाती। If I had come late, she would definitely have gotten upset.
(agar main der se aataa to vah zaroor rooth jaatii।)
Register: Neutral -- Mood: Counterfactual -- Aspect: Perfective -- Voice: Active
फिल्मों में नायिका अक्सर नायक से रूठती और मनती रहती है। In films, the heroine often sulks with the hero and then lets herself be coaxed back, over and over.
(philmon men naayikaa aksar naayak se roothtii aur mantii rahtii hai।)
Register: Neutral -- Mood: Indicative -- Aspect: Habitual -- Tense: Present -- Voice: Active
उनका रूठना-मनाना तो सालों से चल रहा है। Their whole sulking-and-coaxing routine has been going on for years.
(unkaa roothnaa-manaanaa to saalon se chal rahaa hai।)
Register: Casual -- Mood: Indicative -- Aspect: Continuous -- Tense: Present -- Voice: Active
काश वह मुझसे इतनी बार न रूठे। I wish she wouldn't get sulky with me so often.
(kaash vah mujhse itnii baar n roothe।)
Register: Neutral -- Mood: Subjunctive -- Voice: Active
सुनने में आया है कि प्रेमिका किसी बात पर रूठ गई है। It's been heard that the beloved has gotten upset over something.
(sunne men aayaa hai ki premikaa kisii baat par rooth gaii hai।)
Register: Literary -- Mood: Indicative -- Aspect: Perfective -- Tense: Present -- Voice: Passive
बचपन में मैं छोटी-छोटी बातों पर रूठ जाता था। As a child, I used to sulk over the smallest things.
(bachpan men main chhotii-chhotii baaton par rooth jaataa thaa।)
Register: Casual -- Mood: Indicative -- Aspect: Habitual -- Tense: Past -- Voice: Active
राधा कृष्ण से रूठ गई थी, और वे उन्हें मनाने चले। Radha had grown sulky with Krishna, and he set off to coax her back.
(raadhaa krishn se rooth gaii thii, aur ve unhen manaane chale।)
Register: Devotional -- Mood: Indicative -- Aspect: Perfective -- Tense: Past -- Voice: Active
Morphology
Verb
infinitive: रूठना (roothnaa)
infinitive oblique: रूठने (roothne)
habitual/simple (sg.m): रूठता (roothtaa)
habitual/simple (pl.m): रूठते (roothte)
habitual/simple (sg.f): रूठती (roothtii)
habitual/simple (pl.f): रूठतीं (roothtiin)
continuous (sg.m): रूठ रहा (rooth rahaa)
continuous (pl.m): रूठ रहे (rooth rahe)
continuous (sg.f): रूठ रही (rooth rahii)
continuous (pl.f): रूठ रहीं (rooth rahiin)
perfective (sg.m): रूठा (roothaa)
perfective (pl.m): रूठे (roothe)
perfective (sg.f): रूठी (roothii)
perfective (pl.f): रूठीं (roothiin)
imperative (informal): रूठ (rooth)
imperative (neutral): रूठो (rootho)
imperative (formal): रूठिए (roothie)
future (1sg.m): रूठूँगा (roothoongaa)
future (1sg.f): रूठूँगी (roothoongii)
future (1pl.m): रूठेंगे (roothenge)
future (1pl.f): रूठेंगी (roothengii)
future (2sg.m): रूठेगा (roothegaa)
future (2sg.f): रूठेगी (roothegii)
future (2pl.m): रूठोगे (roothoge)
future (2pl.f): रूठोगी (roothogii)
future (3sg.m): रूठेगा (roothegaa)
future (3sg.f): रूठेगी (roothegii)
future (3pl.m): रूठेंगे (roothenge)
future (3pl.f): रूठेंगी (roothengii)
subjunctive (1sg): रूठूँ (roothoon)
subjunctive (1pl): रूठें (roothen)
subjunctive (2sg): रूठे (roothe)
subjunctive (2pl): रूठो (rootho)
subjunctive (3sg): रूठे (roothe)
subjunctive (3pl): रूठें (roothen)