kutcha
/ˈkʌtʃə/adjective
उच्चारण कच
कच्चा
Core word
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[usually before noun] Indian English
(of a building or road) made of mud, dried earth or other weak materials, and not built to last
कच्चा
- Many families in the village still live in kutcha houses.
- The school can only be reached by a kutcha road.
- The kutcha road turns into mud in the monsoon.
+ 2 more examples
- Their kutcha house was washed away in the floods and later rebuilt in brick.
- A government scheme is replacing kutcha huts with pucca homes.
§Structures (grammar patterns) 4
kutcha (adjective) + noun
Kutcha describes a building or road made of mud or weak materials; it comes before the noun.
Kutcha मिट्टी या कमज़ोर सामग्री से बनी इमारत या सड़क का वर्णन करता है; यह noun से पहले आता है।
- They lived in a kutcha house in the village.
- A kutcha road led to the farm.
kutcha vs pucca
Kutcha is the opposite of pucca, which means strongly built with brick and cement.
Kutcha, pucca का विपरीत है, जिसका अर्थ ईंट और सीमेंट से मज़बूत बना है।
- The family replaced their kutcha hut with a pucca house.
spelling variants
The word may be written kutcha, kachcha or kacha; kutcha is the common English spelling in news reports.
इस शब्द को kutcha, kachcha या kacha लिखा जाता है; समाचारों में अंग्रेज़ी वर्तनी kutcha अधिक आम है।
- News reports use kutcha for mud-built roads.
kutcha (informal meaning)
In informal Indian English kutcha can also mean rough or unfinished, as in a kutcha draft.
अनौपचारिक भारतीय अंग्रेज़ी में kutcha का अर्थ कच्चा या अधूरा भी हो सकता है, जैसे kutcha draft।
- This is only a kutcha plan; the final map will come later.
+Collocations 5
kutcha + noun
houseroadhutwallroofbridge
- The kutcha road turned into mud after the rain.
verb + kutcha house
buildlive inrepairreplacewash away
- The flood washed away several kutcha houses.
adverb + kutcha
verymostlystillpartlyentirely
- Most of the village is still kutcha.
kutcha + preposition
of mudof strawwith thatchwithout cement
- The hut was kutcha, built of mud with a thatched roof.
kutcha + problem
leakscollapsesfloodsneeds repairwashes away
- A kutcha roof leaks every monsoon.
“More examples 7
- The government gave loans to families living in kutcha houses.
सरकार ने कच्चे घरों में रहने वाले परिवारों को ऋण दिए।
- Radhika's grandfather remembers a kutcha lane in front of the old school.
राधिका के दादाजी को पुराने स्कूल के सामने की कच्ची गली याद है।
- Kutcha roads become impassable during the monsoon.
कच्ची सड़कें मानसून में चलने लायक नहीं रहतीं।
- The census asks whether a house is kutcha or pucca.
जनगणना में पूछा जाता है कि घर कच्चा है या पक्का।
- The village is slowly changing from kutcha homes to brick houses.
गाँव धीरे-धीरे कच्चे घरों से ईंट के मकानों में बदल रहा है।
- After the cyclone, relief teams first checked the kutcha huts along the coast.
चक्रवात के बाद राहत दलों ने सबसे पहले तट के किनारे बनी कच्ची झोपड़ियों की जाँच की।
- The headmaster said the kutcha classroom would be rebuilt with bricks.
प्रधानाध्यापक ने कहा कि कच्चे कमरे को ईंटों से दोबारा बनाया जाएगा।
!Common mistakes 1
✗ Their house is made from kutcha.
✓ Their house is kutcha.
Kutcha is an adjective and cannot be used as a material noun.
Kutcha adjective है और पदार्थ वाचक noun की तरह नहीं आता।
§Grammar and usage
Usage: the opposite is pucca, also spelt pukka, which means built of brick, stone or concrete, as in a pucca house.
Usage में इसका opposite pucca है, जिसे pukka भी लिखा जाता है और जिसका अर्थ है ईंट, पत्थर या कंक्रीट से बना, जैसे a pucca house।