"That house has four walls."
Translation:उस मकान में चार दीवारें हैं।
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Wondering... Why not घर instead of मकान? that is, why not: उस घर में चार दीरावें हैं?
घर and मकान are the same things.don't be confused with that and उस घर में चार दीवारें हैं is absolutely correct.
As I understand it, घर is like 'home' to मकान's 'house'. You can say 'that home has four walls', but it's odd to talk about a 'home' in an impersonal way.
The direct translation is There are four walla IN that house... That's why it is उस मकान में चार दीवारें हैं।
Your translation into hindi is wrong! If में is used, then the English sentence should have been: There are four walls in that house. Please correct your app!
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No, actually the translation is super correct. Sth in your language doesn't always mean sth in another language. For example In latter lessons, you've learned that if you say " sb के पास sth है", it means that "sb has sth". But, the literal translation is "There is sth near sb (के पास literally means "near")". But you never translate it that way, do you? (It's so weird to say that in English if you mean you have sth). So, "sth में sth है" literally means "sth is in sth" but it is translated as "sth has sth" (Since Hindi doesn't have a verb for "to have", it uses some expressions to talk about "possession") Hope it helped:-)
should "ke paas" be used instead of "men"? if you say "men" it would translate as "there are four walls in that house", right?
When you use 'ke pass' for inanimate objetcs and animals, 'ke pass' means 'nearer to it/them'. It's only when used with a person that 'ke pass' becomes 'to have'.
So if you used it in this sentence, it would be like there are four walls stacked up outside, or lining the roads or whatever, near to but nothing to do with the house?
In other words, could you say इस मकान के पास चार स्कूल हैं? (If you were an estate agent trying to sell it to young families, for example.)
You can't say "ke paas" because that is "have" in the sense of something you can hold in your hand.
Roughly when the noun it's attached to is in the oblique case.
For example: वह बिल्ली उस नदी में तैरती है - that (वह) cat swims in that (उस) river.
It's the same as इस for यह, in case that's more familiar.
Because that flips the subject - in English 'Four walls are in (or make up) that house' rather than 'That house has four walls'.