"तुम ठंडा दूध पी रहे हो।"
Translation:You are drinking cold milk.
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Could this also mean, "You have been drinking cold milk?" I thought रहे हो could also mean "have been"...
Technically, that would be तुम ठंडा दूध पीते रहे हो though तुम ठंडा दूध पी रहे हो is often used instead.
'Rahe ho' is in a pres continuous tense....I'm from india.....So I know hindi
Is it rehae because it's not a molecule of milk but many, instead of reha even though there is only one person drinking the milk??
No. तुम has to be conjugated like a plural which is why it's रहे.
Please don't clutter the forum with ' my answer was correct' stuff.
As it gets hard to read the forum...
If you use तुम, it should be पी रहे हो because तुम conjugates like a plural.
However, you can say तू ठंड़ा दूध पी रहा है with the तू form of 'you'. Note that this is very informal and should only be used with very close friends and family of around the same age as yourself. Otherwise, it would be considered rude.
Why does cold sound like "thanda"? I don't understand where the d sound is coming from, I thought that character was closer to mix between R and L in English?
ड is 'd'. It's just a retroflex 'd' which means that it should be pronounced by curling your tongue slightly backward. To a Hindi native speaker's ear, the English 'd' actually sounds like ड.
You might be confusing it with ड़ (with a dot below) that is a mix between 'r' and ड.
