"मेरे पास समय नहीं है।"
Translation:I do not have time.
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Is this in the sense that I'm in a hurry, or is it in the sense that I don't have a watch?
It means I'm in a hurry (so 'I do not have the time' may be a better translation as VIJAYRAMPE1says).
It can however also mean 'I do not have time' as in 'I am dying soon' though I wouldn't jump to that conclusion unless the context is very clear.
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I think including 'the' makes it much worse, as in sounds much more like it means 'I cannot tell you the time'. Perhaps it's exclusive to British English, but 'Do you have the time?' means 'Can you tell me the time?', not 'Do you have time to do this thing?'.
I am in hurry dont have time for this nonsense....kind. for watch we use word Ghadi घड़ी
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would not a better translation be, "I do not have the time". since "I don't have time" means something else.
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I believe in English "I do not have the time" can be understood as "I cannot tell you what time it is {since I don't have a timepiece}" in response to "do you have the time?" (somewhat archaic)
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Correct. Unless immediately followed by 'to ... [explain this to you again / cook for you / whatever]', when 'the' is included it means I don't know the time. Without 'the', it only means I'm unable to do whatever, because I'm short on time.
They are synonyms. Samay comes from Sanskrit and waqt from Arabic.
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How do you ask ''Do you have time?'' because they kind of belong together. Would it be possible to make the ''the'' distiction like VIJAYRAMPE1's comment with ik?
This sentence is not correct in English, I do not have time is the proper translation.
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To be fair it's not incorrect, but it's fairly archaic. I haven't time (i.e. contracted 'have not') is fine, but without contracting it would sound like you're not truly busy, you'd just rather be reading Dickens than conversing with modern people. :)
It is helpful for me to understand literal translations in addition to idiomatically equivalent phrases. What is a good way to understand what is literally being said in this sentence?
"My near does not have time" ?
"Near to me there is not time"?
धन्यवाद !
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There's no idiom here. The word पास means "near" as well as "with". When used after मेरे, it literally translates to "With me". "With me time is not there".
