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My wife says that people more often use चिरिया than पक्षी in everyday speech. (also the capital letter on Birds gave away too much on this, I didn't know that word.
Minor correction: I belive it's चिड़िया with a ड़. Also here's a fun tidbit. The word for zoo is चिड़ियाघर (literally birdhouse).
Wouldn't this mean "the birds fly"? Doesn't it need "hotha" in order to be a generalization?
होता can be only used with ajectives: Birds are beautiful = पक्षी संदर होते हैं, but it cannot be used with verbs like 'उड़ना', they you say it like above.
i thought पक्षी is singular, if not then what is the singular form for bird?
Why is it not “the birds fly”, since we are not speaking generally about birds?
पक्षियों is only the oblique case plural. Since पक्षी is a masculine noun that doesn't end in आ, it doesn't change when pluralized in the direct case.
