परवाह (parvaah)
noun
A feminine noun meaning 'care' or 'concern', almost always used in the negative/questioning frame -- 'not caring' -- rather than to express that someone does care.
Sense
1
:
care, concern, worry (about something/someone)
noun, feminine Takes की (kii) to mark the thing being cared about: किसी की परवाह (kisii kii parvaah, 'concern for someone'). Commonly paired with करना (karnaa) as a light verb: परवाह करना (parvaah karnaa, 'to care about').
Synonyms: चिंता (chintaa), फ़िक्र (fikr), सरोकार (sarokaar, formal)
Frequency: high
Cultural Note: This word lives mostly in its negative form -- कोई परवाह नहीं (koii parvaah nahiin, 'no concern at all') is the classic dismissive shrug you'll hear constantly in Delhi markets and homes alike, roughly 'whatever, I don't care.' Note the dative-subject frame here: it's मुझे परवाह है (mujhe parvaah hai, literally 'to me there is concern'), the same pattern as पसंद (pasand) or ज़रूरत (zaroorat) -- the feeling arrives to you rather than you actively doing it.
Common Mistakes: 1) Learners often try to say 'I care about you' with a direct verb; Hindi routes this through the noun + करना (karnaa) construction, not a single verb. 2) The object of concern is marked with की (kii), not को (ko) -- मुझे तुम्हारी परवाह है (mujhe tumhaarii parvaah hai, 'I care about you'), not तुम्हें। 3) In the very common negative pattern, है is often dropped in casual speech: मुझे कोई परवाह नहीं (mujhe koii parvaah nahiin, 'I don't care at all'), which can look grammatically incomplete to a learner expecting a verb.
Sample Sentences:
मुझे तुम्हारी बहुत परवाह है।
I care about you a lot.
(mujhe tumhaarii bahut parvaah hai।)
उसे किसी की कोई परवाह नहीं है।
He doesn't care about anyone at all.
(use kisii kii koii parvaah nahiin hai।)
मुझे इस बात की कोई परवाह नहीं।
I don't care about that at all.
(mujhe is baat kii koii parvaah nahiin।)
क्या तुम्हें अपनी सेहत की परवाह नहीं है?
Don't you care about your health?
(kyaa tumhen apnii sehat kii parvaah nahiin hai?)
पहले उसे अपने काम की बहुत परवाह थी।
He used to care a lot about his work before.
(pahle use apne kaam kii bahut parvaah thii।)
जब मैं छोटा था, मुझे किसी की परवाह नहीं थी।
When I was young, I didn't care about anyone.
(jab main chhotaa thaa, mujhe kisii kii parvaah nahiin thii।)
अगर उसे थोड़ी भी परवाह होती, तो वह फ़ोन ज़रूर करता।
If he cared even a little, he would definitely have called.
(agar use thodii bhii parvaah hotii, to vah fon zaroor kartaa।)
तुझे किसी की परवाह करने की ज़रूरत नहीं है, अपना काम कर।
You don't need to care about anyone, just do your own work.
(tujhe kisii kii parvaah karne kii zaroorat nahiin hai, apnaa kaam kar।)
समाज क्या कहेगा, इसकी उसे कोई परवाह नहीं थी।
She had no concern at all for what society would say.
(samaaj kyaa kahegaa, iskii use koii parvaah nahiin thii।)
मुझे यह जानने की परवाह है कि तुम ठीक हो या नहीं।
I care to know whether you are all right or not.
(mujhe yah jaanne kii parvaah hai ki tum thiik ho yaa nahiin।)
उसे शायद अभी तक अपने भविष्य की परवाह न हो।
Maybe he still doesn't care about his future.
(use shaayad abhii tak apne bhavishy kii parvaah n ho।)
Morphology
Noun
(sg.f.direct):
परवाह
(parvaah)
(sg.f.oblique):
परवाह
(parvaah)
(pl.f.direct):
परवाहें
(parvaahen)
(pl.f.oblique):
परवाहों
(parvaahon)