"Cats drink milk."

Translation: बिल्लियाँ दूध पीती हैं।

[Surya-Rose]

shouldn't it be "बिल्लियाँ दूध पीती होती हैं।"?

[RSudo]

Came here to ask the same question... sad no one has answered yet in 10 months

[another-dave]

On a different thread, Zeebo explained that you only use होता with adjectives, not verbs

[aswiniravi1]

Why पीती and not पीते हैं?

[Aakhil6]

पीती is used for either feminine plural or singular nouns in the present tense only. पीते is used for masculine plural nouns only in the present tense.

[RangaM75]

Yes
I agree

[AndrNordin1]

Should this not be "The cats drink milk"?

[zeebo7]

Both are acceptable translations.

[AndrNordin1]

Thank you! One other thing, shouldn't पीती be nasalized as well: पीतीं?

[VishakhaS]

The अनुस्वार or the nasal sound (ं) is put on the last word, which in this case is hain.

Case in point:

बिल्लियाँ दूध नहीं पीतीं।
बिल्लियाँ दूध नहीं पीती हैं।

I hope things are clearer now.
PS: Hindi native speaker here.

[lilidhulia]

Whats the difference in translations between "Cats drink milk" vs "The cats drink the milk" vs "The cats are drinking the milk"? When translating from Hindi to English in previous exercise, the "hai" was ommitted, but when translating from English to Hindi in this exercise, I was penalized for omitting the "hai".

[kumari17928]

Why not pithen...instead of pithi

[VishakhaS]

The अनुस्वार or the nasal sound (ं) is put on the last word, which in this case is hain.

Case in point:

बिल्लियाँ दूध नहीं पीतीं।
बिल्लियाँ दूध नहीं पीती हैं।

I hope things are clearer now.
PS: Hindi native speaker here.

[ph.O9e0SK]

Surya rose

[ph.Xc1dGL]

Hi aswiniravi पीती is used for feminine nouns either it is singular or plural पीता is used for singular masculine nouns and पीते is used for plural masculine nouns..... बिल्ली is a feminine noun...And here the question is Cats drink milk So the Answer is बिल्लियां दूध पीती हैं।