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"Potato and carrot are vegetables."
Translation:आलू और गाजर सब्ज़ियाँ हैं।
July 21, 2018
11 Comments
RanzoG
547
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."
Sam362597
1138
Or articles, I suppose. I might say 'The potato/carrot/cauliflower/cabbage is a vegetable' (if I didn't mind sounding strangely academic).
RanzoG
547
English is being inconsistent by making potato and carrot countable and cauliflower and cabbage non-countable. Hindi is simply being consistent.
Sam362597
1138
I agree that the Hindi is more internally logical, or I would if cauliflower and cabbage were uncountable, which they're not. The point is just that the English translation sounds unnatural.