"उसने मेरे दिल के साथ खेला।"
Translation:She played with my heart.
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'He played with my heart = उसने मेरे दिल के साथ खेला। ' can also be used for male
Is the meaning of this sentence more like "she and my heart played board games together" or "she toyed with me emotionally"? Additionally, would the use of से instead of के साथ make a reasonable sentence closer to the second meaning?
It is the emotional version: she played with my heart. For the second question, no, because से means 'through'. के साथ is appropriate here because it means 'with'. Hope this helped you.
I'm confused. Why does the last verb sometimes end with -i, and sometimes with -a, even though the subject is female? Does it have anything to do with the object?
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Yes. In simple past tense, a transitive verb agrees with the direct object in number, gender.
If the subject has the postposition ने, a transitive verb doesn't agree with it.
I'm confused about the use of past tense here, I would have written khel thi? Where is the marker for the past, and the one for the feminine?
The marker for the past is ने (उस + ने =उसने), and there is no feminine marker; in simple past tense, the verb matches the gender and number of the object, not the subject. "He played with my heart" would be exactly the same.
Because the object we're talking about is "Dil" or the heart. And heart is masculine in Hindi.
In some tenses (simple past tense, perfect tenses), transitive verbs conjugate with their direct objects instead of the subject. A ने is added to the subject to indicate this.
When there is no direct object like in this sentence, the verb is in the singular masculine form.
If we do add a direct object, the verb would take its gender. For example, उसने मेरे दिल के साथ कबड्डी खेली (She played kabaddi with my heart), because कबड्डी is feminine.
