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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.
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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?
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.
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 ??
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.
ढ़ is "rha" and ड़ is "ra". Not to be confused with ढ (dha) and ड (da). See the letters lessons, part 4 I think.
What is the gender of peter? By name how can you assume his/her gender?
Peter reads book...should also be acceptable. Here a native Urdu speaker trying to learn Hindi script. In Urdu and Hindi an article is almost never used. But I must admit that the correct translation would be Peter reads THE book.
"Peter reads book" is grammatically incorrect in English. You need either "the books" or "books" ("a book" would translate to "ek kitab", in Hindi, I guess). On a separate note, do you happen to know good resources to learn Urdu? I learn Hindi on Duo in order to be able to learn Urdu later.
Rosetta Stone's Urdu is really good and my American wife found it very useful. It will also teach you how to write URDU. Unfortunately, Duo has not started URDU even when it is the language of more than 100 million people.
"EK"means one. Please read my explanation above that I am re-posting here. ...Peter reads book...should also be acceptable. Here a native Urdu speaker trying to learn Hindi script. In Urdu and Hindi an article is almost never used. But I must admit that the correct translation would be Peter reads THE book.
