जनवरी (janavrii)

noun The month of January -- a single-sense loanword used exactly like its English counterpart in dates and calendars.
Sense 1 : the month of January
noun, feminine
Frequency: high
Cultural Note: Hindi borrowed all twelve month names directly from English for everyday civil use -- जनवरी (janavrii), फ़रवरी (faravrii), मार्च (maarch), and so on -- so an English speaker already has a huge head start here. This is separate from the older Hindu calendar months (चैत्र (chaitr), वैशाख (vaishaakh), etc.), which still appear in festival dates and almanacs but not in daily conversation.
Common Mistakes: 1) Learners sometimes add an article-like word or treat it as needing गिनती (gintii) agreement -- month names in Hindi are simply used bare, exactly as in English: जनवरी में (janavrii men, 'in January').
Sample Sentences:
जनवरी साल का पहला महीना है। January is the first month of the year.
(janavrii saal kaa pahlaa mahiinaa hai।)
Register: Neutral -- Mood: Indicative -- Aspect: Habitual -- Tense: Present -- Voice: Active
जनवरी में दिल्ली में बहुत ठंड पड़ती है। It gets very cold in Delhi in January.
(janavrii men dillii men bahut thand padtii hai।)
Register: Casual -- Mood: Indicative -- Aspect: Habitual -- Tense: Present -- Voice: Active
मेरा जन्मदिन जनवरी में आता है। My birthday falls in January.
(meraa janmdin janavrii men aataa hai।)
Register: Casual -- Mood: Indicative -- Aspect: Habitual -- Tense: Present -- Voice: Active
हम जनवरी में गोवा गए थे। We had gone to Goa in January.
(ham janavrii men govaa gae the।)
Register: Casual -- Mood: Indicative -- Aspect: Perfective -- Tense: Past -- Voice: Active
नया प्रोजेक्ट जनवरी में शुरू किया जाएगा। The new project will be started in January.
(nayaa projekt janavrii men shuroo kiyaa jaaegaa।)
Register: Formal -- Mood: Indicative -- Tense: Future -- Voice: Passive
अगर जनवरी में बर्फ़ पड़ती, तो हम पहाड़ों पर जाते। If it snowed in January, we would go to the mountains.
(agar janavrii men barf padtii, to ham pahaadon par jaate।)
Register: Neutral -- Mood: Counterfactual -- Aspect: Habitual -- Voice: Active
कृपया जनवरी की छुट्टियों की सूची भेज दीजिए। Please send the list of January holidays.
(kripyaa janavrii kii chhuttiyon kii soochii bhej diijie।)
Register: Formal -- Mood: Imperative -- Voice: Active
शायद बैठक जनवरी के अंत तक हो जाए। Perhaps the meeting will happen by the end of January.
(shaayad baithak janavrii ke ant tak ho jaae।)
Register: Neutral -- Mood: Subjunctive -- Voice: Active
गणतंत्र दिवस हर साल छब्बीस जनवरी को मनाया जाता है। Republic Day is celebrated every year on the twenty-sixth of January.
(gantantr divas har saal chhabbiis janavrii ko manaayaa jaataa hai।)
Register: Formal -- Mood: Indicative -- Aspect: Habitual -- Tense: Present -- Voice: Passive
जनवरी से मार्च तक परीक्षाएँ चलती रहती हैं। The exams keep going on from January to March.
(janavrii se maarch tak pariikshaaen chaltii rahtii hain।)
Register: Neutral -- Mood: Indicative -- Aspect: Continuous -- Tense: Present -- Voice: Active
जनवरी की सुबहें कुहासे से भरी होती हैं। January mornings are filled with fog.
(janavrii kii subahen kuhaase se bharii hotii hain।)
Register: Literary -- Mood: Indicative -- Aspect: Habitual -- Tense: Present -- Voice: Active
Morphology
Noun
(sg.f.direct): जनवरी (janavrii)
(sg.f.oblique): जनवरी (janavrii)
(pl.f.direct): जनवरियाँ (janavriyaan)
(pl.f.oblique): जनवरियों (janavriyon)