"मुझे मेरी किताब दो।"

Translation: Give me my book.

[blahblahblee]

This should use अपनी instead of मेरी should it not? Or would that leave who's book it is undetermined?

[M_A_Ashraf]

मुझे अपनी किताब दो - Give me your book
मुझे मेरी किताब दो - Give me my book
उसे उसकी किताब दो - Give him his book
उसे अपनी किताब दो - Give him your book

अपनी is a reflexive pronoun that always refers back to the subject of the sentence. Since the subject of an imperative sentence is You, अपनी means 'your' in an imperative sentence.

[blahblahblee]

Never said thank you. Thank you! Very clear explanation.

[Fun_Bucket]

Why doesn't "give my book to me" work as a correct translation?

[kzamzow12]

I agree and I reported it

[AnUnicorn]

Does this not use अपकी because the implied subject is "you"?

(And does that mean a "use your own thing!" command would take अपकी without an antecedent? Like would "read your own book!" be 'अपकी किताब पढ़ो!'?)

[OJFord]

Assuming you mean अपनी (न, not क), yes, exactly.

[V2Blast]

Neither Hindi nor English generally includes the subject (being commanded/told to do something) in the sentence.

Not sure about your second question, but I think so.

[Ganishk]

Difference between Two and Give(not detha) in Hindi for दो

[OJFord]

They happen to have the same spelling yes, but clearly they're different words.

[Ganishk]

Yeah I am asking in what aspect they are.

Like in a sentence where both of them exists.
i.e. Take two apples from her

[OJFord]

In the sense of 'two' it's not a verb; so it doesn't have an aspect.

As the verb 'give', whether imperative ('give her apples') or subjunctive ('you are to give her apples'), the दो conjugation is non-aspectual.

[Ganishk]

Oh!OK thanks,Got it, I don't know whether the sentence with both of them exists or not

[OJFord]

Sure, you could say 'give (whoever) two (whatever)' and it'd have both - किसी दो बात दो - but maybe it sounds a little strange/awkward and unless deliberately poetic/for a song a native speaker might use another word for the देना one? I'm just speculating.

[Viv1891]

1. Root form of "give" is "De" whose imperative form is " Do".
2. I understand your confusion between two and give since both are " Do"
3. Understood your question and slightly modifying it... how do you say .... "give two apples to sb"... it is .... Use/ Ise do (two) seb de do (give).
4. The conflict is clarified by adding a "de" before "do" but at times it may be given a miss. In those cases the context and in

[akshaysindhu027]

Isnt it 'dena' root word of 'do'

[OJFord]

देना is the infinitive yes, but Viv is right that the 'root' is दे। In general, infinitive = root + ना।