सब कुछ (sab kuchh)
pronoun
A fixed pronoun phrase meaning 'everything, all of it' -- built from सब (sab, 'all') plus कुछ (kuchh, 'something'). It has a single core sense used constantly in everyday speech, and an idiomatic extension where it means 'the most important thing' to someone.
Sense
1
:
everything, all of it
pronoun Grammatically invariant; behaves as a singular neuter-like pronoun and takes third-person singular verb agreement regardless of what it stands for.
Synonyms: सारा कुछ (saaraa kuchh, less common variant), हर चीज़ (har chiiz, 'every thing', slightly more itemized feel)
Frequency: high
Cultural Note: You'll hear this constantly in daily life -- a shopkeeper asking अब सब कुछ ठीक है? (ab sab kuchh thiik hai, 'is everything fine now?'), or a mother reassuring a child सब कुछ ठीक हो जाएगा (sab kuchh thiik ho jaaegaa, 'everything will be fine'). It has a comforting, all-encompassing weight that English 'everything' carries too, but Hindi speakers reach for it more readily as a way to wrap up a whole situation in one word.
Common Mistakes: 1) Learners sometimes try to pluralize the verb with सब कुछ (sab kuchh), for example writing सब कुछ हैं (sab kuchh hain) instead of सब कुछ है (sab kuchh hai) -- it always takes singular agreement, since it is treated as one whole mass, not a collection of countable things. 2) Do not confuse with सभी (sabhii) or सब (sab) alone used for people/countable things ('everyone', 'all of them') -- सब कुछ (sab kuchh) is reserved for things/situations, not people.
Sample Sentences:
सब कुछ ठीक हो जाएगा, चिंता मत करो।
Everything will be fine, don't worry.
(sab kuchh thiik ho jaaegaa, chintaa mat karo।)
Listen: M85
आग में उसका सब कुछ जल गया।
Everything of his burned in the fire.
(aag men uskaa sab kuchh jal gayaa।)
Listen: M85
काश मैं सब कुछ पहले से जानता।
If only I had known everything beforehand.
(kaash main sab kuchh pahle se jaantaa।)
Listen: M85
यहाँ सब कुछ बहुत महंगा मिलता है।
Everything is available very expensive here.
(yahaan sab kuchh bahut mahangaa miltaa hai।)
Listen: F85
सर, कृपया मुझे सब कुछ विस्तार से समझाइए।
Sir, please explain everything to me in detail.
(sar, kripyaa mujhe sab kuchh vistaar se samjhaaie।)
Listen: F85
जीवन में सब कुछ नियति द्वारा निर्धारित होता है।
In life, everything is determined by fate.
(jiivan men sab kuchh niyti dvaaraa nirdhaarit hotaa hai।)
Listen: F85
क्या तुमने सामान से सब कुछ निकाल लिया है?
Have you taken everything out of the luggage?
(kyaa tumne saamaan se sab kuchh nikaal liyaa hai?)
Listen: M85
हो सकता है वह सब कुछ जानता हो।
It's possible he knows everything.
(ho saktaa hai vah sab kuchh jaantaa ho।)
Listen: M85
Sense
2
:
the most important thing, one's all (in one's life)
pronoun Occurs in the frame X के लिए सब कुछ होना (X ke lie sab kuchh honaa, 'to be everything to X'), where सब कुछ (sab kuchh) functions as a predicate noun describing total emotional importance.
Frequency: medium
Cultural Note: This is the line at the emotional heart of countless Hindi film dialogues and songs -- तुम मेरा सब कुछ हो (tum meraa sab kuchh ho, 'you are my everything') is the kind of declaration a lover, or a mother about her child, might make. It captures how सब कुछ (sab kuchh) can shift from a neutral quantifier to an intensely personal claim of total devotion.
Common Mistakes: 1) Learners sometimes translate 'you are my everything' too literally with तुम मेरा सब कुछ हो (tum meraa sab kuchh ho) -- this is actually correct and very natural, but learners often forget the possessive मेरा (meraa) is required before सब कुछ (sab kuchh) in this sense, unlike the plain 'everything' sense which needs no possessive.
Sample Sentences:
वह लड़का उस बुढ़िया का सब कुछ था, उसके जाने के बाद वह बिल्कुल टूट गई।
That boy was that old woman's everything; after he left, she was completely broken.
(vah ladkaa us budhiyaa kaa sab kuchh thaa, uske jaane ke baad vah bilkul toot gaii।)
Listen: M85
मेरे लिए मेरा परिवार ही सब कुछ है, बाकी सब बेकार है।
My family is everything to me; the rest doesn't matter.
(mere lie meraa parivaar hii sab kuchh hai, baakii sab bekaar hai।)
Listen: F85
अगर वह मेरा सब कुछ न होता, तो मैं इतना दर्द क्यों सहता?
If he weren't my everything, why would I bear so much pain?
(agar vah meraa sab kuchh n hotaa, to main itnaa dard kyon sahtaa?)
Listen: F85
माँ के लिए उसका बच्चा उसकी दुनिया और सब कुछ होता है।
For a mother, her child is her world and her everything.
(maan ke lie uskaa bachchaa uskii duniyaa aur sab kuchh hotaa hai।)
Listen: M85
क्या सच में कोई किसी का सब कुछ हो सकता है?
Can someone truly be everything to another person?
(kyaa sach men koii kisii kaa sab kuchh ho saktaa hai?)
Listen: M85
इस गाने में नायक अपनी माशूका से कहता है कि तू ही मेरा सब कुछ है।
In this song, the hero tells his beloved that she alone is his everything.
(is gaane men naayak apnii maashookaa se kahtaa hai ki too hii meraa sab kuchh hai।)
Listen: F85
जब उसने कहा कि तुम मेरा सब कुछ हो, तो मेरी आँखों में आँसू आ गए।
When he said that I was his everything, tears came to my eyes.
(jab usne kahaa ki tum meraa sab kuchh ho, to merii aankhon men aansoo aa gae।)
Listen: M85
अपने सब कुछ को खोकर भी वह मुस्कुराती रही।
Even after losing her everything, she kept smiling.
(apne sab kuchh ko khokar bhii vah muskuraatii rahii।)
Listen: F85