"क्या आमिर हर दिन आता है?"
Translation:Does Aamir come every day?
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One of the English translations offered for हर दिन is "everyday". This is wrong. "Everyday" means "mundane", "usual", "not special", etc.
Confusing the adverb "every day" and the adjective "everyday" is a common mistake among both native and non-native English speakers. It should not be perpetuated by a language learning app.
In the translation of कया it may help to think of it as 'whether', which in the actual English translation needs to be left out. It helped me to understand and internalise this way of forming a question. In government forms this construction is literally used in, what I assume now are, forms translated from hindi to English (whether you live in India? Whether you are married?)
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"Whether" wouldn't make any sense here. I imagine it may have entered Indian forms in the nineteenth or early twentieth century because of translators who had read some medieval or early modern philosophy, which uses that. I tend to think of words like this (Japanese has "ka" and Polish has "czy" and Esperanto has "cxu," for instance) as just a sort of verbal question mark.
Kya is only used for yes/no when placed at the beginning of a sentence. It's only purpose when at the beginning is to indicate that it's this type of question. If it's in the middle of a sentence it means "what".
I'm not really sure what you're asking. I don't know the history of the word or anything, it's just how it is. It's the exact same word, same pronunciation and everything. It just depends on word order.
Your example: tera naam kya hai. This means - what is your name.
However, switch the order to kya tera naam hai and it means "do you have a name".
Kya at the beginning only shows it's a yes/no question and its exact meaning would change depending on the question.
Kya ye yahan hai - IS it here
Kya tera naam hai - DO you have a name?
Kya mai ja skti hu - CAN I leave?
Kya in the middle of a sentence always means what.
Tum kya kr rhe ho - WHAT are you doing?
Tera naam kya hai - WHAT is your name?
Tumko kya hua - WHAT happened to you?
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Amir or Aamir is proper name and both should be accepted. There are many notable Amirs living in Indian sub continent
I couldn't agree more! In some of the other duolingo taught languages the name Anna is used and in another language Ana is used; they mark it wrong if you use the wrong spelling of An(n)a. I get that its imprtant to spell someone's name correctly but maybe they should pick names that dont have common alternative spellings; Like Julia and Peter, but no Derrick/ Derek/ Darrick/ Derik/etc.
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If so, Raj wouldn't be coming. [Refer earlier lessons on the relation between Raj and Aamir].