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"Is she in your house?"
Translation:क्या वह तेरे घर में है?
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It turns the sentence into an interrogative sentence:
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In the beginning of a sentence, it turns the sentence in a yes/no interrogative sentence. Usually you translate the sentence starting with "Is, are, do, does", (p.e. क्या वह तेरे घर में है? > Is he/she in your house?)
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In the middle of a sentence, it turns the sentence in interrogative and it means "what" (p.e. वह क्या तेरे घर में है? > What is in your house?)
A yes/no question marker (this is the meaning when a sentence starts with क्या)
I think that the में transforms the object घर in oblique case, which requires तेरे.
Oblique case is when the noun is either the object (something else is doing something to it) or if it has a postposition after it (like in or from). So in this case ghar is oblique because of mein that follows it. So anything that modifies it has to change also. So instead of tera ghar it changes to tere ghar.
Is the word क्या necessary for turning statements into questions or can you simply ask it in an certain pitch of voice?
Technically, on paper, the क्या is required because that is the only thing that differentiates between a question and a statement. Colloquially, however, often times people will just change the pitch of their voice to indicate a question, with their pitch getting higher at the end of the sentence.
I said क्या यह आपके घर में है? and it was marked wrong. Is there something wrong with my version?
Is she in YOUR house? is the question. Yours says "Is he in your own house?". Your own house (femenine aapki) which would be also incorrect would be using "aapki Ghar men"
This explanation is incorrect. The pronoun for 'one's own' is अपने while the pronoun that Sean_Roy used was आपके which is the most formal version of 'your'.
I think the response 'क्या यह आपके घर में है?' was marked wrong for using 'यह' instead of 'वह' because the sentence indicates that the person in question is not physically close. However, I can think of instances where you would use यह (if you were pointing to a photo of the person and asking where they are, for instance).
No. The choice of आपका/आपकी/आपके depends on the word that comes after it and not the gender of the person you are taking to. Since घर is masculine, you can't say 'आपकी घर'. 'आपके घर' is the correct form to be used in this sentence because it is in the oblique case
Gotta say vinay92, you're really active with replying to comments and your advice is always good and clear - बहुत धान्यवाद जी!
You can (and even probably should), but in the oblique case here, so "tumhare" instead of "tumhara". I don't know about the exact usage of "tu" and its corresponding possessive pronouns in Hindi, but in Urdu they are not used except to show disrespect towards someone, as during a fight for example. Thus the Pakistani address their close friends with "tum", not with "tu".
Complained about missing question mark in word bank mode... Perhaps because I switch between that and keyboard?
I think that becomes something like: “What is Neha in your house?” then. Here having क्या first in the sentence is a yes/no question marker as zeebo7 mentioned before.
It’s common to drop it entirely though and rely on the tone of voice, but it’s probably best to learn the proper form first!
Just for a laugh I tried putting in the plural form 'क्या वे तुम्हारे घर में हैं' as though speaking about someone in an honorific sense; can someone tell me why that wouldn't work (e.g. as in क्या दादी जी घर में हैं? or perhaps 'दादी जी कहाँ हैं? क्या वे तुम्हारे घर में हैं?')
The sentence is correct. It's just that it's probably not been added as an accepted alternative translation by the team. You can report it if you see it again.
Also, I'm glad you are finding my comments helpful.
