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"I am drinking" is a continuous tense.
Continuous Tense is handled differently in Hindi.
The correct translation for "I am drinking" is
" मैं पी रहा हूँ " [If the speaker is male]
" मैं पी रही हूँ " [If the speaker is female]
So for this sentence, when translating from English to Hindi, Peetha or Peethi ... are both correct?
Yup. Peeti would be for a girl and Peeta for a boy. But as english does not specify the first person's gender, both are coreect
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You might want to start practicing hindi alphabets first, that will help you remember how an alphabet looks like and how it sounds while reading.
Start typing in Devanagari. It's a bit of a learning curve, but once you get past the hump (and keep reviewing the alphabet lessons even when you think you already know everything), it starts to click much better. I recommend the Microsoft "Hindi Traditional alphabet" IME so you don't have to Alt-Gr between keyboards for different layers (tried one Hindi keyboard that had me Shifting and Alt-Gr-ing between 4 different keyboard layouts at one point!).
Print this out and keep it by your keyboard as a reference: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:KB_Devanagari_InScript_text_1.svg
Be careful to use this sentence - it could mean alcoholic drinking, so it is better to specify a noun before the word 'peeta'. Eg: 'pani' (water), 'chai' (tea) , etc.
हुँ is part of the verb that indicates the person (in this case, 1st person) and tense(in this case, present tense), and always goes at the end of the sentence.
I was confused by that as well because up until now I understood it as "to be." Now all that I know about it is that it indicates the first person.
Your interpretation is right. You can say it is the first-person form for the state of being.
That's why I put "I am drinking" BEcause I understood it "hum", to REpresent (is, am, BE)
