"What is tea? What is water? Who am I?"
Translation:चाय क्या है? पानी क्या है? मैं कौन हूँ?
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Now write 100-150 pages on those questions and be prepared to defend your thesis in front of the examiners to get your graduate degree.
The answer to all of those questions is "mostly molecules made up of hydrogen and oxygen". The rest of you is mostly carbon and nitrogen. These four atoms are the most abundant in the universe apart from helium (which is a noble gas and can only make you sound funny). Does that make you feel special?
I paraphrased Neil Degrasse Tyson. Look him up.
Now that the easy chemistry questions are out of the way... define being, define consciousness. Is being a property of things or is it some kind of thing itself? What are the fundamental categories into which all existing things may be divided? What are the fundamental features of reality? What is the world like -- in itself -- independent of our perception of it? What manner of existence do particular things have, as distinct from peoperties, relations, and classes? Similar questions are to be found in any university level philosophy book (where many of these were plucked). Perhaps YOU have some thoughts on these.
Perhaps you used the wrong characters to create that word:
कौन = क + ौ + न = क + औ + न
vs.
काैन = क + ा + ै + न = क + आ + ऐ + न
They look exactly the same written out, but only the first one is correct as far as Duo knows.
Cool streak, by the way.
What's the difference between them? Or is it just a Duolingo bug that it doesn't understand they're the same?
There is only one vowel associated with the ka (क + औ). The sequence क + आ + ऐ + न has an extra vowel, and also lacks the right vowel. आ + ऐ not equal to औ.
Duolingo used Existential question! Duolingo is confused. It hurt itself in its confusion!
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I only can select full words from the menu, I cannot write words myself in answering it ... (Android app, Aug 2020)
The web version of Duolingo has the option for keyboard input instead of the word bank. It is more challenging.
Is this some kind of Kōan or ancient parable from India? Regardless, beautifully spoken! — तत्त्वमसि
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In using the question word क्या:
§ If you just want a Yes/No answer, put क्या at the beginning, e.g. Is this water? –> क्या यह पानी है?
§ If you want it to ask What?, put it just before the verb, e.g. What is water? –> पानी क्या है?
Hindi uses the sentence order: Subject – Object – Verb.
So the question, "Who am I?" puts the subject (मैं) first, and the question word (कौन?) before the verb (हूँ):
मैं कौन हूँ?
If the sentence starts with ' meim' the last part will be ' hum' . If the sentence starts with other words like ' yah' 'vah' etc. The last word will be 'hai'. (The words quoted inside " " are hindi words) That is the trick. Hope you will find it useful.
Actually they should provide punctuation marks so that we can understand how to express the sentences
