"सेब लाल होते हैं ।"

Translation: Apples are red.

[ElijahDAF]

What does होते have to do in a sentence?

[Kateykr]

Good question - Hote means something is always that way.

[santosh135994]

Can we use hotee instead of hote?

[Kateykr]

Nope, hotee is feminine

[Kateykr]

Apples are not always red.
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[Blaster886182]

True but they are not talking about ripe apples.

[Poik5]

Golden delicious and Granny Smith are both ripe and not red.

[VIJAYRAMPE1]

होते is a conjugation of होना (hona), but in the conditional tense (not in the "present indicative.") More on the conjugation of the verb होना
www.verbix.com/webverbix/go.php?D1=47&T1=honaa&H1=147

[William80638]

how do you use Verbix? i type in "go", "to go", "went", and nothing came up

[VIJAYRAMPE1]

The verbix link offers info on the conjunction of होना
http://www.verbix.com/webverbix/go.php?D1=47&T1=honaa&H1=147

[Malatimanjari]

It says Verbix is under construction. Does one have to install it and what all comes along with it?

[Yaadizzle]

So why is another translation constructed as "dhood safeed hai"? Where is the internal difference to this sentence?

[Kateykr]

I think sometimes you CAN use it; other times you HAVE to use it.

A sentence CAN have it or not, but with it, it definitely stresses that something is "always that way". However I think this sentence is using it incorrectly since apples are NOT always red; they can be green, or yellow, or even bruised and brown - and the same can be argued about your dhood [milk]. :)

[ElliotJire]

Well... it doesn't have to be true to be a correct sentence

[santosh135994]

Can we say होती here instead of होते?

[Kateykr]

No, because apple is masculine. Good question

[ErfanRezamand]

लाल red origins from the word "lale" in persian which is the name of tulip flower