- Forum >
- Topic: Hindi >
- "He has three daughters."
"He has three daughters."
Translation:उसकी तीन बेटियाँ हैं।
30 Comments
Cause daughter is female word so it's उसकी and not धनबाद it's घन्यवाद, धनबाद is a place in India.
If it was "I have" it would have been "mere paas..." Why is "paas" mot being used when it's uska? "Uske paas..." not possible?
पास is only used for material and tangible possessions. For things like relatives whom you 'possess' only in a figurative sense, you omit the पास.
So, मेरे पास एक किताब है - I have a book
मेरा एक भाई है - I have a brother
Ah. Now I remember. Thank you! When I studied Hindi at university we had a long (heated) discussion about this: a native speaker said that it was ok to say "mere paas ek maid hai". Not very nice to possess a person!
Yep. We had the same discussion (reg. using पास with maids) on this forum a few months back. I'll link the thread if I manage to dig it up.
That would be wrong because उसके is masculine plural, and बेटियाँ is feminine, so it's उसकी.
The English sentence cannot be literally translated into Hindi because there is no verb equivalent to 'to have' in Hindi. The Hindi sentence उसकी तीन बेटियाँ हैं literally translates to something like 'His three daughters exist.'
उसकी means 'her'/'his' and is वह + की
You use 'uska' or 'uski' depending on the gender of the 'possession', not the possessor - 'uska' for masculine possessions and 'uski' for feminine ones.
So, उसका बेटा is both 'his son' and 'her son'. We've used उसका because बेटा is masculine. Similarly, we use उसकी in 'उसकी बेटी' ('his daughter'/'her daughter') because बेटी is feminine.
Yes that's the literal translation. That's just how you phrase it in hindi. "He/She has three daughters" is the correct meaning.
