"He has three daughters."
Translation:उसकी तीन बेटियाँ हैं।
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Cause daughter is female word so it's उसकी and not धनबाद it's घन्यवाद, धनबाद is a place in India.
@ClareBryan its a silly question Uski means his and वह means he. उसकी तीन बेटियाँ हैं। using uski and वह की तीन बेटियाँ हैं। using वह...as when we pronounce it in hindi the 2nd sentence is weird while saying as it is incorrect and the 1st sentence is proper....so its simple we use uski in like this sentences and it is धन्यवाद not धन्यबाद!
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' in a manner of speaking, 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.
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
That would be wrong because उसके is masculine plural, and बेटियाँ is feminine, so it's उसकी.
The Hindi sentence literally translates to something like "His three daughters exist'. So, the हैं is in the plural form because it conjugates with बेटियाँ (daughters).