"There is no wall in my home."
Translation:मेरे घर में दीवार नहीं है।
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Or just a invisibility potion splashed on the wall
( Invisibility potion in Minecraft )
Possible answers to deal with the cognitive dissonance: - In traditional Japanese homes they use sliding panels (shoji) for both interior and exterior. Technically, I don't believe they're called walls, although they can be used as such. - Do teepees have what might be called walls? - Perhaps their home is a pavilion.
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Bacause ghar (घर) is followed by a postposition me (में), which makes the whole phrase (including the possessive) in the oblique case (मेरे घर में).
The Hindi course sure is teaching me stuff i would never use in real life.
I put मकान instead of घर and was counted wrong. I thought they were interchangeable, also. When should one be used as opposed to the other?
They are not interchangeable. The difference is similar to that between 'house' and 'home' but more pronounced. You use मकान only when you are strictly referring to the building that constitutes the house and talking impersonally.
As a thumb rule, 'home' would always be translated as घर.
'House' can be translated either as मकान or घर depending on whether you are just talking about just the building itself or something more.
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Wouldn't the duolingo answer translate better as: My house has no wall? I gave as an answer "Davar mere ghar me nehi he" but was refused
दीवार मेरे घर में नहीं है would be closer to 'The wall is not in my house'.
Shifting the word order to मेरे घर में दीवार नहीं है in Hindi does the same job as the expletive construction 'There is' in English which is to shift emphasis from the subject.
That said, you are right that you cannot literally translate 'My house has no wall' into Hindi because of the absence of a verb like 'to have'. So, that would also be मेरे घर में दीवार नहीं है.
In hindi there's an idiom "घर सिर्फ चार दिवारो कीं ही नही होती..." (House/home is not only of four walls)
This man proved it..!!
Two comments: one, architectural—does this include exterior walls, too? Or just no interior walls—it is just open plan? Two, "मेरे घर में दीवार नहीं" should also be acceptable, since you can drop the form of the verb होना in negative sentences in the present tense.
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While I share you architectural concerns, my first go at this was मेरे घर में दीवारें नहीं हैं since no type of house that I know of has only one wall. While I suspect that my translation isn't incorrect, the given one is probably more typical in Hindi, right?
Actually, the plural form you wrote sounds more natural in Hindi.
@JGvXPd - You can't drop the होना here because that is the only verb in the sentence. It can be dropped in negative sentences in the present tense only when there is another verb.
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I thought, that if there is a "नहीं" in the sentence the"है" at the end isn't required... It seems that I was wrong..
The noun phrase 'मेरा घर' is in the oblique-case in this sentence because it tis the object of the postposition में. The oblique-case form of मेरा is मेरे.
Ghar is home and makan is house. For detailed information please refer to vinay92 comment above (:
