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"Raj eats in this room."
Translation:इस कमरे में राज खाता है।
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Is there a reason that Raj (as the subject) can't come at the beginning of the sentence? I did subject-postpositional phrase-verb, but Duolingo rejected it
03/05/2020 Don't know when you made your post, but since then they seem to have fixed it, because that's what I did and it was accepted.
Is कमरे in an oblique case because of the post position f में? I used "kamra" and it was wrong.
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Why is this not accepted? "राज इस कमरा में खाता है"
I figured it out. I had कमरा and not कमरे
इस कमरे में राज खाता है
or
राज इस कमरे में खाता है
are both acceptable.
You're right about your first answer. कमरा should be in oblique case (कमरे). As for the latter, both are acceptable but इस कमरे में राज खाता है is more natural. It also emphasizes the subject (which is राज).
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Why इस? I mean, it's oblique even though it's not itself directly the subject? (If it had been a free-type question I would have thought यह कमरे में…)
The object of the postposition में is the noun phrase 'इस कमरे'. So, both इस and कमरे are in the oblique case.
Just for fun, you can also have a sentence like राज इस घर के एक कमरे में खाता है। (Raj eats in a room of this house). The object of में is the whole phrase 'इस घर के एक कमरे' and all the words here must be in the oblique case. This is why के has been used instead of का.
To address some of the questions/comments here: "Raj eats in this room" can be the correct answer to 2 questions, but the answers change in Hindi depending on the wording (both should be accepted): Who eats in this room? Since 'this room' is the given in the question, the answer should have the room first: इस कमरे में राज खाता है। And for "In which room does Raj eat?" राज इस कमरे में खाता है would be the better answer.
यह becomes इस when it is an object of a postposition, ie, in the oblique case.
यह कमरा मेरा है - यह because it is in the direct case.
मैं इस कमरे में हूँ - इस because it is in the oblique case since the phrase इस कमरे is the object of postposition में
Thank you for helping me understand this. And btw, I love your profile pic!
Can sb plzz explain what is the meaning of OBLIQUE CASE? cuz i see it in all comments and cant figure it out.. does it mean that here kamra is object of perposition? That is why we should choose kamre not kamra? We call this oblique? I'll appreciate it if sb replies me.
You are right. When we say a word is in the oblique case, it is the object of a postposition (Hindi uses postpositions rather than prepositions like English). When this happens, the word is used in a slightly different form (like kamre instead of kamra).
I've written about the oblique case in this discussion. The Duolingo tips about it are here. You can go through them. Do ask if you have questions.
I entered "इस कमरे में राज खाता है।" as the answer, and was marked wrong. What's up?
कमरा, being a masculine noun ending with आ, becomes कमरे whenever it is followed by a postposition (here में).
Room - कमरा
In the room - कमरे में
(कमर, on the other hand, happens to mean "waist".)
