"Potato and carrot are vegetables."
Translation:आलू और गाजर सब्ज़ियाँ हैं।
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Why is होते not required for this statement but is required for "Tomato is not a vegetable"?
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I would also appreciate it if someone who knew the answer to this question could reply.
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But they are grammatically singular. Like cauliflower and cabbage in English. You don't say "cauliflowers are vegetables." But you do say "cauliflower and cabbage are vegetables."
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Or articles, I suppose. I might say 'The potato/carrot/cauliflower/cabbage is a vegetable' (if I didn't mind sounding strangely academic).
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English is being inconsistent by making potato and carrot countable and cauliflower and cabbage non-countable. Hindi is simply being consistent.
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I agree that the Hindi is more internally logical. The point is that the English translation sounds unnatural.
