"राज पीता है।"
Translation:Raj drinks.
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Yes, in grammarian (phonetician?) terms Hindi's त/थ is 'dental': one's tongue is touching the back of the upper teeth. (ट/ठ is 'retroflex': the tongue curls back slightly, touching underside to roof of mouth.)
In contrast, English's 'ta' (may very slightly regionally but in general) is between a त and a ट - the tongue is touching the gum behind the upper teeth (but not curling back to the roof) producing this 'harder' sound.
If you look at the differences in how these 'approximately the same' sounds are produced in Hindi vs. English, (Wikipedia has a handy table, link below) and practice moving your tongue to each one and sounding aspirated/unaspirated, it's amusingly easy to adopt an 'Indian' accent speaking English - and it makes sense - just as we butcher Hindi and mark ourselves out as गोरे by making hard 'ta' sounds for त, many Indians speaking English will naturally do the same in reverse. (Perhaps an even more noticeable one being va/wa vs. व, which is somewhere between the two (and also varies by speaker) and is only one sound & character vs. the two that English has.)
That 'handy table': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devanagari#Consonants
Yes infact when people say vo पीता hai toh mai they usually think that it is drinking alcohol
I've just realized that the song "Del pita pita del" in that old Cocacola ad, is bombarding you with the message "drink and don't stop drinking"
the correct translation is 'Raj drinks'......this can be used in various ways....it can be used as the answer to the question 'does raj drink? '.......it can also be used to ask the question.....if you add a question mark after the hindi sentence i.e राज पीता है ?, this translates to " Raj drinks? ".....or in a more complete way.....if you add 'kya' at the start it would become "kya Raj peeta hai? " which translates to 'does Raj drink?'
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Радж пьёт - Slavic language speakers should have no trouble remembering how to say 'to drink' in Hindi!
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17/02/2021 - "Raj is drinking" not accepted.
Seriously admins of this Hindi course, sort this issue out. It's across the entire course.
You need to add Hindi as an input method on whatever device you're using; then you can write it anywhere, including forum comments.
For example, on Android: Settings > Language & Input > Languages > Add language. On macOS: System Preferences > Keyboard > Input Sources > '+'. I'm sure iOS & Windows are similar. On Linux I use ibus-typing-booster.