"घास बड़ी है।"
Translation:The grass is big.
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Is there a reason it’s insisting on the definite article? Wouldn’t both “the grass” and “grass” be correct?
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This sentence could be uttered (in a fictional context) by a very small creature for which all grass is big.
There's nothing wrong with the English sentence without the article; no-one would argue with the sentence 'grass is green', even though not all grass is green.
But in the statement grass is green one would be making a generalized statement which uses a different construction. So if, say, an ant in a children's film were to say "grass is tall" it would be घास बड़ी होती है। grass is tall. घास बड़ी है। is not a generalized statement so "the" should be used.
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Aha; thank you for this information. I was only saying above the English sentence being proposed was valid in English, and was unaware that Hindi would express this gnomic sense in a different way. Have a lingot!
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Not really. sure you could be reffering to specific grass, but then you would not say the grass, but rather this grass (यह घास) or that grass (वह घास)
So to answer the question: I would say "the" is not required.
Yes, that’s the translation I wrote as well. Everyone, make sure to submit feedback on these issues!
I wonder if the grass it tall isn't accepted because it's expected to be घास लंबी है।
Meh, context. Suppose you're shrunk with a device to the size of an ant (there are movies about this), you could well exclaim: 'The grass is big!'
Yes, I agree. I was thinking large as in a large lawn, but not really large or big. Or, thinking about it, is tall correct. Could use 'high' but not with bari!
"The grass is big" isn't English to me. We would say "The grass is long" here in the UK.
In English, we would say, "the grass is tall", "घास लम्बी है", As in all languages their expressions often do not translate accurately. That's the uniqueness of each language.
I wrote "Grass is big". But I was wrong because the correct answer is "The grass is big" it seems. Was I wrong?
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I am seeing an image of American Football-type grass...Grass may be tall (or short), not big in my opinion.
I dont get it, whats different between 'The big grass' and 'The grass is big'? I literally dont understand!
"The big grass" is a thing. "The grass is big" is a sentence, a statement describing what the grass is like.
There's a lot of talk here about 'big' vs 'tall'. Can a Hindi speaker confirm that the meaning of this sentence is (or could be) that the grass is tall, please? (It just mean, eg., that the lawn is a very big one. Thanks.
