"जूलिया एक बच्ची है ।"

Translation: Julia is a child.

[mayateacher]

Can we omit 'ek' and just say 'Julia bacci hai"? Is it necessary to include 'ek"?

[vj-]

Yes, that's quite common in colloquial Hindi around me. "Ek" literally translates as "one", it's probably mainly being used here to clarify between singular & plural for learning purposes.

[ph.Ib0Q09]

a means ek

[Vishal.SJ]

Would using बच्चा be correct?

[a22brad22]

Only if Julia is a boy, as far as I'm aware.

[khF1S]

I wrote "Julia is a girl" and got it wrong. Any reason?

[AadityaVer4]

Though child and girl wpuld be equivalent in this case, बच्ची literally defines to child and लड़की literally defines to girl.

[Seb_aur_kela]

No one comment on Julia Child, the famous cook?

[DarshKotha2]

DennisLduolingo you are like duolingo waving picture

[ph.1c6Y5y]

No, it's not right

[ph.tYDsOe]

Can we translate it as "Julia is a kid."?

[DennisLDuolingo]

Yes.

[Knoblauch9]

I wrote "Julia is a female child" since bacci is clearly female while "child" in English is gender neutral

[Matthew_stucken]

But female is never mentioned. I am not 100% sure why बच्ची has the ई ending, but I assume it has something to do with the fact that Julia is a female name and so it is assumed that the child (gender neutral form of child) is female. Since there is not a female/male conjugation for "child" in English, simply "child" is written.

[paul796716]

Famous chef. Her coq au vin is excellent!

[ph.bpxzvD]

Is a child urea is a child

[its_kishorkumar]

Wait i didn't this Julia is just a child
Last time I checked Julia's Sister's Son has a boy named Raj
It is getting weird

[David738689]

Prime example of clear and open pronunciation of 'है' here; just came from another board for 'उनका घर भारत में है' where it was clearly pronounced 'हैं' and the difference is plain as day! I'm fairly convinced the other one needs changing - didn't have a report function for the audio either so I'm posting here too

[Mar163267]

"Julia's a child" wasn't accepted by duolingo -- maybe duolingo should learn English :(

[Muraka3]

I thought Julia is married to Raji. But... is she a child?

[Fredlovesall.]

Yeah, She's a child !

[ph.CPc3RF]

sab log pagal hai kya kisiko english nahi ati kya
nahi aati toh amarica jakar sikhlo woh log tum
log se zyada better hai

[ph.xwa6x4]

Julia is a child

[Mosa_Saurus]

I'm going to be the immature child in the forum and point out how much बच्ची sounds like "buttcheek."