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There is no such word as "paining" in English language. Aching is the right word. You can say, I have pain in my ears or It pains..
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How so? "में" is missing from your sentence and if you analyze the sentence, a literal English translation is "In my ear, pain is existing". In plural, it should be the exact same structure: "In my ears, pain is existing". In both cases, the verb would be singular.
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"hona" (the infinitive of "ho") is just "to be". That did not change. The literal translation (as provided by guigarfr's comment down this comment thread) is "in my ear pain is being". It's really not new, it's just that the present continuous has not been used with the verb "hona" until now. In English, "to be" doesn't get used in the present continuous but in Hindi it does and you could imagine what it would imply in English ("I am being") : it would insist on the the moment when something exists in a specified state. The same goes in Hindi. So here, it just insists on the continuous aspect of the occurrence of the pain.
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There just seems to be inconsistency here... I put "There is pain in my ear" and got it marked wrong... yet just before when the solution was "There are ten toes in this woman's feet" and I put "This woman has ten toes" that too was marked wrong. So what goes here re: translating every word (and specifically the " there are *** in " ?
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Maybe I should have put "I am having pain in my ear" and that would have been marked correct??
"I have an earache."indicates persistent pain. it doesn't just give a momentary jolt of pain. I wrote "I am having an earache." to try to get the feel of the Hindi दर्द हो रहा है, but maybe there is no natural English way to focus on the persistence of pain in an earache where it is continuous b nature. I have noticed that my Indian colleagues often used non-nativelike continuous forms when speaking English. I wonder if Hindi explicitly indicates the continuous or repeated aspect action in cases where that aspect is implicit, like earache.
Would मेरे कान में दर्द है be possible in natural Hindi? Would दर्द हो रहा है be the most usual locution? I am getting the sense that this is an important similarity/difference between Hindi and English. They both can indicate by verb forms many nuances of tense/aspect, for example duration or repetition versus a simple action. However the sentence in question shows how differently the two languages express duration.
Yes, of course you are right. I was trying to come up with a situation wherein a native speaker might use a "there is pain in x" locution. Of course we would say to a doctor, "My leg hurts." or to be more specific about the pain maybe, "My leg aches" or "is aching.", but I think a doctor asking exploratory, probing questions might say, "Is there/Do you have pain in your x?" The problem with the formulaic English translation given by Duolingo for the Hindi phrases, is that we can't tell if the Hindi phrase is as peculiar and limited in use as, "There is pain in Julia's leg" is in English. I am imagining an adult speaking on behalf of Julia, perhaps a very young child or an elder with dementia, to a doctor who as has asked, "What seems to be the problem?" I have to really use my imagination to create a scenario for "There is pain in Julia's leg."
As far as I can make out, before रहा you need to use the uninflected verb root so: सो रहा है। खा रहा है, लग रहा है, for the verb 'to be' that uninflected root is हो, so then, हो रहा है. रहा makes the action ongoing, continuous. In the case of action verbs like 'read', English and Hindi seem to have a similar pattern: he reads वह पढ़ता है He is reading वह पढ़ रहा है. I think literally मेरे कान में दर्द हो रहा है।is 'Pain is being in my ear.' as opposed to मेरे कान में दर्द है Pain is in my ear. We don't use 'be' like that in English. "Is being" is pretty restricted in use and meaning.