"हाथी बड़ा होता है ।"
Translation:An elephant is big.
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Because it's making a general statement about what a typical elephant is like, not one particular elephant. The meaning is closer to "An elephant is [a] big [animal]."
Either that or also accept "The elephant is big" as an alternative answer. I believe it's correct, depending on context - certainly in informal speech. Having said that, this course has really highlighted how lax my grammar has become, so I could be wrong - I alledgedly speak Hindi as a 2nd language at home (to English) regularly.
Not a hindi speaker but I think it wants to say "elephants are usually big"
As होता is for generalisation... shouldn't "(the) elephants are big" be accepted too?
"The" is used for specific items that youre talking about, thus it wouldnt be a generalization.
Wrong, correct translation would be- Elephants are usually big. होता refers to a situation or a thing that usually exists. Like 'This happens' translates to 'ऐसा होता है ।'
Is not an elefant femimine? (That ended with i). Why do verv not ended also with i?
I'm getting annoyed Because only for not using an vowel it can become a wrong?