"राज तेरे घर में रहता है।"
Translation:Raj lives in your home.
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It's Tere not Tera because in "Raaj tere ghar men rahataa hai", the 'men' (and any other postposition- I think that's what they're called- 'in, on, of, towards,' etc.) makes the 'tera ghar' go into the oblique. Ghar, itself, never changes, so here, the tera alone turns into tere.
To the course creators/maintainers: since you are aware that the "oblique case" involves non-intuitive grammatical trickery, why don't you have a separate, dedicated lesson for it? Entering the lesson called "Family", I expected to learn about family related vocabulary; I got this sentence as one of the first, and it took me a while to figure out its structure properly. I suggest you create a lesson with a title like "Unexpected grammar: Oblique case" and teach about the issue there. Also, if you can, at least in the basic (Level 0/5) examples use words that demonstrate the case clearly by changing form: as "घर" in the oblique case looks exactly the same as in the nominative, it is as helpful as using "you/you" to teach the accusative case in English instead of "he/him".
It's as Kateykr described above. You use "tere" here not to imply that it's plural but because it's an oblique case. If you refer to the object directly like "this is your house" you would use "tera". However, in this case it's not just "your house" it's "IN your house"; the preposition "in" makes it an oblique case so you use "tere".
Another example would be "You are my son" - direct case, use "mera". But, if the sentence was "You are with my son", then it is an oblique case so you use "mere".
Hindi has three forms for 'you' depending on how close you are with the person you are addressing and how formal you want to be. 1. तू - This form is reserved for very close friends or family members of around the same age as yourself. Note that it can be perceived as rude if you use it for others. 2. तुम - It is used with most people who are younger than or around the same age as yourself and also people with whom you can be informal. 3. आप - It is used with people older than you or with whom you are being formal. This is the form that is also appropriate for most strangers.
तू, तुम and आप each have their own case forms and conjugations.
तेरा is a form of तू, तुम्हारा of तुम and आपका of आप and they mean 'your'.