Perfect participles can indicate time since something happened.
They’re often used in phrases that are part of a larger sentence:
मुझे भारत आए तीन महीने हो गए हैं – “It’s been three months since I came to India”
However, they can be used independently, too:
देर हुई आये – “Were you waiting for long?” (i.e. “Has a long time elapsed since you came?)
हम लोग छोड़के गए तब से ये कपड़े यहीं पड़े हुए हैं – “These clothes have been lying right here ever since we left them there!”
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Thanks for the amazing lessons! Always great to learn new ways of expressing things! 🙂
Thank you, Dorothea! I’m glad that you like the lessons. I’ve heard this idiom a lot recently and I thought it was an interesting expression.