"What is its name?"
Translation:उसका नाम क्या है?
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I don't know how your keyboard is laid out, but my Devanagari keyboard has a ् key (between the े and ि keys). If you type ् after a consonant, the next consonant you type will be joined. This allows you to manually type in clusters instead of relying on autocorrect.
Use SwiftKey keyboard. Select English, Hinglish and हिंदी as the languages. (It supports upto 3 languages at the same time.)
Awesome, thanks. So I've done that now, but I'm still having trouble finding hpw to type "ky", "sk", etc.
Or else you can use "Google Translator" select English in the first column and Hindi in the second.Then you type whatever you want to in English in the space given in the "Google Translator" and so it types in Hindi whatever you have in English.
If you're on desktop and using Chrome, you can download the 'Google input tools' extension which can do the same thing without leaving the web page.
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You can try Gboard. Add Hindi language and use phonetic typing. You'll be able to spell every clustered consonants.
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It could be either.
उसका is for things further away. इसका is for something close.
Compare them to वह and यह.
No. When it means 'what', the क्या should go before the verb (है in this case). So, it should be उसका नाम क्या है?
In colloquial speech, you might also hear something like क्या है उसका नाम? but never क्या उसका नाम है?
क्या उसका नाम है? actually means something close to 'Is his name there?'.
The Hindi sentence उसका नाम क्या है? can mean either 'What is its name?', 'What is his name?' or 'What is her name?'.
Shouldn't "Uska naam kya hai" and "Uska kya naam hai" be both correct? It just said I was wrong. How? Anyone?
'Uska kya naam hai' is perfectly fine in colloquial spoken Hindi.
However, in formal Hindi, 'kya' should be placed right before a verb when it means 'what'.
Non-standard word orders like 'Uska kya naam hai' are used in spoken Hindi, often with an appropriate inflexion of speech, to communicate subtle shades of meaning.
Well Duolingo is not for getting a degree in literature. If a sentence is used in everyday spoken Hindi, it should not be considered wrong. Maybe a warning can be given, like when you misspell a word. I speak the language (but am here to learn to read and write), and have seen more people use the sentence the way I had it then the one otherwise.
