"वह लड़का सबसे सुंदर है।"
Translation:That boy is the most beautiful.
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Although handsome is far more common, beautiful can describe a male, even a virile male, e.g. Adonis.
1277
Hi, Many English words such as "handsome", "wrathsome" wierdsome" etc. will not be found in Hindi~ "Beautiful" in Hindi is gender-less.
1277
"Beautiful" can be used to describe a boy, child, etc.... DL also accepted "attractive" in lieu of "beautiful". However, DL translates the sentence as: "That boy is the most attractive of them all."
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The ड़ is a cerebral sound, and so when pronounced properly the "r" sounds like "d". Hindi, derived from Sanskrit, would also follow the rule of the 5 mouth positions, including gutteral (back of the throat as in "k" or "g"), palatal (top of the palate as in "ch" or "j"), cerebral (smooth, round area of hard palate behind and above the teeth), dental (touching the back of the teeth, as in "t" or "d" or "n"), and labial (lips, as in "p" or "b" or "m").
To me it sounds like 'rl', or at least like a slapped 'r' at the end. I think 'd' is often written because ड़ looks like ड, which is already written 'd' for more obvious reasons. Though I never heard somebody say लडका, but could it be that some non-native speaker picked the word written in Latin characters? I know someone who says पैसा, पाइसा, I wondered if it was because it's written paisa in Latin characters or something else.
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This problem is interesting to me too. This sound ड़ is pronounced like “rl”, like soft “d”, like soft “r” or maybe like French “r"? In Duolingo, it sounds in different words in different ways. And the same problem with ढ़. I have no answer. Maybe someone can give answer to this?
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These are different semantic accents, which are given by the structure of the sentence. Like if we say: This is a big apple. यह बड़ा सेब है। Or: This apple is big. यह सेब बड़ा है। It's not the same.