Sanskrit is considered as an old, almost dead and who-cares-about-it language by modern use. However, being the mother of at least almost all the Indian languages, it has its stamp over all of them.
Some share it structure, some its complexity, and some share its alphabet–Devnagiri.
But when it comes to some particular words, almost all languages have some words commonly used that actually come from Sanskrit.
Hindi is considered as the closest to Sanskrit but the present day spoken Hindi is so different from the original Hindi that if a good writer or speaker writes/speaks in Hindi, the audience does not understand it. This is because the present-day spoken Hindi gets majority of words from Arabic, Turkish, Iranian, Persian and also from Portuguese.
However, we present a list of 10 commonly used words by the modern Hindi youth that actually come from Sanskrit language.
| Hindi | Sanskrit | English |
| आलसी | अलसः | Lazy |
| चोर | चोरः | Thief |
| देहली (दहलीज) | देहली | Threshold |
| नाटक | नाटकः | Play (Drama) |
| छतरी | छत्रम् | Umbrella |
| सैनिक | सैनिकः | Soldier |
| अङ्गुली | अङ्गुली | Finger |
| खजूर | खर्जूरः | Date (Fruit) |
| लहुसन | लशुनम् | Ginger |
| तारा | तारा | Star |
