"What are you doing?"
Translation:तुम क्या कर रही हो ?
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It's not always. For women/girls it can be रही. However, there is nothing in this lesson to indicate the gender in the English form. If they were to say, "What are you doing, Julia?", then we would know we could use रही, but still रहे should also be accepted.
Because karti ho means doing in general Kar rahi ho means doing in progress
Isn't "कर" work? Doesn't "तुम क्या कर रही हो" translate as "what do you do for work" rather than "what are you doing?"
No, काम means work.
कर is the verb stem of करना, which means to do. कर रहा/रही is the present continuous form of करना. Therefore, कर रही/रहा means doing.
"तुम क्या काम करते/करती हो?" would be "what work do you do".
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As countinous form I think it should actually be "What work are you doing" or "What are you working".
Thursten, do you mean "what work are you doing?"?
That would be: तुम क्या काम कर रहे हो?
Not quite.
Whenever raha/rahi gets involved, you can be sure of it being a continuous sentence. In other words "ing" will definitely be involved in the English counterpart of that sentence.
What do you do - Tum kya karti/karte ho.
What do you do for work - Tum kya kaam karti/karte ho.
This is technically incorrect Even native speakers of every language make grammatical mistakes
If you are speaking about कर, कर्मा, करता - कर is the verb stem of करना. कर्म is, to put it simply (but it's much deeper), the universal law of cause and effect (everything you do has karmic consequences, good or bad, that come back to you, usually in future lifetimes). करता is the masculine singular conjugated form of करना .
