"This is her day."
Translation:यह उसका दिन है।
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No. "Uska" is correct. Here "uska/uski" has to agree with "din" and not the person being referred to. So regardless of whether we're talking about a man or woman, the sentence will be "ye uska din hai".
My native speaker boyfriend says यह दिन उसका है is also correct. Is he right or using bad grammar?
Technically it is. But hindi works differently. So it's just like that. Sorry. I mean, it took a while for me to learn and I speak hindi everyday with my family
NO! They both mean his/her. Uski bacci (his/her daughter) vs uska bacca (his/her son). You figure out the his/her distinction from the context.
Opposite from English, but similar to Romance languages, the gender of these possessive pronouns agrees with the item possessed, not with the possessor.
Does anyone elae feel that, in ambiguous situations, Duolingo Hindi (almost?) translates the pronoun as "she" or "her" and never/very rarely as "he" or "his"? I can understand their wanting to counteract the dated practice in language courses to default to male forms in general examples, but here we are with this confusion. Balance seems like a more practical goal.
