"Julia and Neha are sitting together."
Translation:जूलिया और नेहा साथ में बैठे हैं ।
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I checked with my partner ( native Hindi speaker ) . He said that बैठी is definitely correct.
If not for really helpful commenters like you, I would never understand Hindi.
No good way to report it. I did so and checked all the checkboxes (audio sounds wrong, hints wrong or missing, english wrong) though none apply. Hopefully it'll at least get someone's attention.
Seven months later, it's still not corrected, but at least there's a better way to report it available now. "Something else went wrong."
I had the same thought looking at the conjugation tables (https://www.duolingo.com/skill/hi/Plurals/tips-and-notes). But I also asked a Hindi speaker and he felt that बैठे was more correct than बैठी. Could it be that it has to do with the way it is actually spoken (plural feminine ee in written, but casually e in spoken)? Or could it be a common "native speaker mistake", like your/you're in English?
बैठे is an adjective, not a verb. Think of it as meaning "seated", as in "Julia and Neha are seated together."
In English, "sitting" can mean (1) already being in a seated position or (2) being in the act of changing to a seated position. The Hindi verb for "sit" (on which बैठा / बैठी / बैठे is based) can only mean (2).
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Side note: it really should be बैठी since the entire group is known to be female.
Unfortunately, the word bank only offers baithe, which does not fit here, not baithî ... (February 2019)
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Isn't "Julia" and "Neha" both feminine names? Then why there is बेठे used in stead of बेठी?
बेठी is correct as many others have observed. You should report it next time you run into it.
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I wrote the sentence without the me after sath, like in the previous sentence, and it was accepted. What's the difference between the two options? Tnx.
How is it that 'sitting' is not बैठ रही ? As with other verbs the ending is this?
Hindi's verb बैठना is subtly different from English's "to sit". This is addressed earlier in the thread. Search it for "बैठे is an adjective".
