"पीटर किताब पढ़ता है।"
Translation:Peter reads the book.
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It isn't! In fact, the indefinite article 'a/an' (एक) is used less commonly in Hindi than in English.
So, in this case, would we know whether the person means the book or a book from context?
Generally, such a sentence would have fewer chances of being used naturally. If one wishes to say "Peter reads a book", we'd say पीटर एक किताब पढ़ता है whereas if the book has been mentioned before we'd say something like पीटर वह किताब पढ़ता है (Peter reads that book) to emphasise that particular book which has been talked about before.
This one is just a grammatically correct sentence that can have both of the accepted translations.
It isn't. एक can be dropped in almost all cases that you would use "a/an" in English.
पढ़ता is listed for both options. I picked the first one and was told it was wrong ... Hindi needs to work out a few bugs.
So, it appears that the issue was the way the devanagari script was rendering on my computer. Nothing above the line appeared. I don't know if duolingo made a change or I did something on my side, but it finally changed so that I could see enough of it that I could figure out what was what.
This just happened to me, too. I'd been through all the lessons several times a few months ago, and this is the first time I've ever seen the same word offered twice.
I was marked wrong for "peter is reading the book". If this is truly incorrect how do I express the present continuous tense in Hindi?
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In another comment, someone explained that the present continuous does exist in Hindi and gave examples. That answers the first part of your question but unfortunately, I can't find that comment, so that I can't help you understand how it is built.
In case anyone else comes to this page, as hptroll has earlier indicated, "Peter reads book" should NOT be accepted because although it may translate the concepts indicated in the Hindi sentence, it is not acceptable English. In English, we almost always need some kind of specifier with singular nouns (a book, this book, that book, the book). Only in rare cases such as abstract nouns or proper names is it ok not to have a specifier ("I fall in love" is therefore OK, but "I fall in hole" is not; it must be "I fall in a hole" or "I fall in the hole"). And since the Hindi किताब is definitely singular, we must insert either "a" or "the" to make a correct English sentence.
I didn't understand where i can use the article "THE". is it necessary to use article "THE"? Sometimes,here didn't use article THE.. can anyone explain me clearly ??
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Yes. It’s an auxiliary. In English, you don’t need an auxiliary in the simple present (you do in the continuous present) but in Hindi, you do.
