"बड़ा कुत्ता, बड़ी बिल्ली। बड़े चूहे, बड़ी गायें।"
Translation:Big dog, big cat. Big mice, big cows.
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Chuhe means both rats and mice, right? It counted me wrong for using rats.
surely "big rats" is acceptable for बड़े चूहे, it's been using rat as a translation of चूहा to this point
Hindi doesn't have the concept of neutral. The gender (or लिंग) of an object is pretty hard to remember. German also has a sort of similar system, only they have 3 genders. However, Hindi has only male and female. In a lot of cases, the male objects end with an (aa) sound and the female with an (ii) sound. But that's not a hard and fast rule. One example is pakshi, which is male. So a dog is always male, unless you're talking about a specific dog. And a cat is always female, unless you have a special one in mind.
also female dog is called 'kutti' (a curse word mind it) and male cat is called 'billa'
Bitch in English, कुतिया in Hindi, teef in Dutch. All of them are female dogs and curse words.
Pretty lost here, can someone explain variations of the word "big"?
- BaRaa = singular (1) male
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BaRe = plural male
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BaRee = singular AND plural female
Yes, cuhé is plural. The singular is cuha. It can mean both mice and rats, but is used more often to mean mice.
No. Only that vertical line is used. It is called "Puran Viraam". "Puran" means "complete" and "Viraam" means "stop".
Can the phrase बड़ी बिल्ली mean tiger/lion, in the same way "big cat" does in English? Or it's always just an oversized house cat?
I too didnt understand at first but if u look at the details it said cuhe not cuha so mice is plural so its the right answer
I didn't use the capital letter for the word "Big " the rest are correct but it showed wrong
It is a little bit confusing
You just have to focus and concentrate
Lol I got that one wrong because I didn't put the capitalized "Big"s in the right places.
