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No. बताना to tell बोलना to speak, to vocalize कहना to say, to call something बात करना to converse, discuss, have words with
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Oddly enough, the word नहीं is not used with commands. One generally uses न or मत.
Although this has no bearing on learning the language: There is some theory by linguists, I believe, that नहीं is a contraction of न and है, kind of like "doesn't". न is the more elemental form of "no."
That would make a lot of sense, especially since often when sentences are spoken in a negative, है is often omitted
Indeed that would make a lot of sense. In Pali, a language of ancient India related to Sanskrit, "na" was already used as a negative (I don't know if there was any other word fulfilling that purpose actually). I would be very glad if any person knowledgable in Sanskrit or Pali could tell us more about this :-)
"Do not tell to me" is improper grammar. No native English speaker would say this.
