"हमें शराब नहीं चाहिए।"
Translation:We do not want alcohol.
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Hindi is a good language but it is polluted by un-intended Arabic and Persian influences.Hindi is only a majority language(It is spoken by less than 45% of population of India).My native language is Kannada,but i speak telugu and malayalam as well.Hope Duolingo will bring about more inclusive language courses and new languages.It annoys me whenever, in Banglore, the metro signs are given only English and bloody Hindi and not kannada.This Hindi lingual-supremacism has to stop.
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Other Indian languages use the "mujhe chahiye" construction too, e.g. in Tamil we say "enakku venam" rather than use "Naan (I)" as the subject. Hence the "I want" and "I need" forms are combined and transformed into a sort of passive form, "is needed by me (us, them, her, etc). and in fact is the only acceptable expression.