"इस हाथी का घर भारत है।"
Translation:This elephant's home is India.
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The word यह transforms to इस when there is a postposition like में, पर, के साथ etc. (Same with वह to उस, ये to इन and वे to उन.) The appropriate example would be इस सेब के साथ नाश्ता करो (Have breakfast with this apple).
Thanks Aakhil. However I fail to see where the postposition in this sentence. is "ka" from "hathi ka ghar" considered as a postposition ?
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ka is the postposition. Without postposition: This elephant -> Yah hathi. With postposition: This elephant's house -> Is hathi ka ghar.
So this is that "rare" situation, as the intro to the lesson says, where the "real" "non-dative" oblique case is used?
so basically as an comparison with यह you would say "यह हाथी भारत में रहती है" or "यह हाथी भारत से है" and so on?
You have changed the word order, and therefore the emphasis. Until they can add in other alternatives, it is always best to stick to the correct order.
That makes "India" the subject rather than "this elephant's home" as is the case with the Hindi sentence here.
Why is "house" wrong? I agree that "home "definitely" sounds better, but couldn't it still be translated literally to "house"?
House (the actual building) would be makaan, while home is ghar. If you are referring to the literal house, they are interchangable, but you wouldn't describe the larger area where someone lives as their house.
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House refers more to a construction than the sentiment. Perhaps house is wrong because elephants tend not to construct permanent structures.
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elephant is singular, elephants are plural.
Here we want to make a single elephant the possessor, so it needs an apostrophe: elephant's.
If it said "mein" after bharat, then your answer would have been correct,
Sometimes Duo doesn't differentiate between house and home at others he does. How to learn????
