"They have a daughter."
Translation:उनकी एक बेटी है।
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I am having problems with noun and pronoun agreement. Why is it उनकी and not उनके? Because it refers to a daughter?
I think the way it was written in the possessives lesson, that possessive pronouns should be matched to the object, so बेटी is feminine and so is the possessive pronoun उनकी !
पास is never used with people, only for objects. The correct way to formulate it in Hindi literally translates as "Their daughter is", but is understood to mean "They have a daughter". Just a quirk of the language that must be memorized.
A little like Russian, '...at them, there exists' ="they have". So this is not so exclusive or difficult to consider.
I think if you look at what zeebo7 said, daughter is the subject here, so you use है, because it's singular, not plural. (But I'm no expert)
"Their one daughter is" (this one). I think its better to see this sentence this way instead of "they have a daughter".
Yes, the subject is the whole phrase 'their one daughter', who is clearly singular.
So would उनके पास एक बेटी है be incorrect here because the thing being possesed is a person?
See the thread above: https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/28382998?comment_id=28382999
That would be like saying 'a daughter is near them (pl. f.)'.
I dont rly get it.so you say unki ek beti he.right?cos it doesnt rly make sense when you translate it directly.like they one daughter.i know this sounds silly but its confusing me.
Their, not they.
'I think, therefore I am' - am, verb to be = hūñ, verb hona.
'unkī ek betī hai' - 'their daughter is' - is, verb to be = hai, verb hona.