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09:59 Jan 20, 2010 |
English to Urdu translations [PRO] Art/Literary - Art, Arts & Crafts, Painting | |||||||
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5 | لئے یا لیے |
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5 | لئے |
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for لئے یا لیے Explanation: ٰ I have checked different resources and found out as under: Oxford and Kitabistan Dictionaries have used the spllings as لیے for this word. CRULP (Centre for Rsearch in Urdu Language Processing) - a government organisation for the progress of Urdu have, however, supported both spellings and for the same meanings i-e-(واسطے، خاطر،سبب، برائے۔). In the day to day use, both spellings are in vogue without any observation of any of them being incorrect. However, as far as I think, لئے is more appropriate for the English word 'For'. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 1 hr (2010-01-20 11:16:53 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Oxford and Kitabistan Dictionaries have used the spellings لیے for this word. |
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for لئے Explanation: Well, most people use either of the two spellings, although لئے should be the correct form to mean "for", while لیے should be preserved for plural perfect participle or adverbial of the verb form لیا . Thus لینا: لیا، لیے، لی etc. Many writers consciously maintains this distinction, but many others do not differentiate the two spellings because both the forms have become so common in use that they seem conventional. |
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