"वे किताबें पढ़ती हैं।"
Translation:They read books.
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पढ़ते हैं should also be accepted here.
However if we were sure that वे(ve) referred to a group of girls/women, then the ending would be पढ़ती हैं ।
Let's replace the ambiguous वे.
लड़का किताब पढ़ता है - The/A boy reads the/a book
लड़के किताबें पढ़ते हैं - The boys read the books
लड़की किताब पढ़ती है - The/A girl reads the/a book
लड़कियां किताबें पढ़ती हैं - The girl read the books.
Notice how the पढ़ती remains the same whether it's one girl or several girls.
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Excellent explanation. Just correct girl to girls in the last example. A typo I guess
padhti haim is used for feminine plural and padhte haim is used for masculine plural.
Could this theoretically also mean "those books read"?? I mean assuming they were somehow sentient books... this seems like it could be ambiguous under the right/wrong circumstances lol
Yes, you are correct but only if books could read. :):). As a native speaker, I admire your understanding of the grammar.
"Study" is not exactly a synonym of reading. You can be reading something but not studying at the same time.
What do you mean by the English sentence 'They study those books'? I would understand it to mean that they are looking at the books closely (à la Sherlock Holmes). When used this way, 'study' cannot be translated as पढ़ना. It would be something like वे उन किताबों को बारीकी से देखते हैं.
If you instead mean that they are studying from the books, that would be ' वे उन किताबों से पढ़ते हैं'
I believe GabrielBou meant to say "They read those books." In which case, I believe they are almost correct.... But padte should be padti since its feminine plural.
Depends on what you mean by the English sentence, 'She studies the books'. Usually it would mean that she looks at the books closely. This sense of the word is not translated as पढ़ना.
However, you can say वे किताबों से पढ़ती हैं for 'They study from the books'.