"राज के पिता ने सेब खाये हैं।"

Translation: Raj's father has eaten the apples.

[Aravinduo]

"Raj's father has eaten the apples"=
राज के पिता ने सेब को खाये हैं।

"Raj's father has eaten apples"=
राज के पिता ने सेब खाये हैं।

कृपया स्पष्ट करें।

[ph.XmrlLY]

The second sentence is correct and the first one is incorrect

[Ken384225]

Thanks!

[BelaVeda]

Wouldn't the addition of को in " राज के पिता ने सेब को खाये हैं " mean सेब is blocked, so we have to default to खाया है ? Or did I pick the wrong week to cut back on caffeine?

Edit: and isn't को only for animate/sentient grammatical objects?

[Amos_7]

The sentence introduces a new word in ने, but when i click on it there is no description. Are there any notes for this lesson..? I'm not able to see any either in the app or the web version.

[hurricane1414]

https://www.learning-hindi.com/post/2392152114/lesson-83-the-past-tense-for-transitive-verbs

This article helped me a lot.

[Amos_7]

I can see why they didn't add any meaning to that word. Thank you. That site is quite useful.

[tizerzert]

Thank you ! It does !!

[Catparrot]

What's the ने for?

[sandrayojana]

Why not "Raj's father ate an apple"?

[Zerenei]

Because it is खाये हैं and not खाया है. When you use the ने form of past tense, the verb agrees with the object instead of the subject. It's a little odd but you get used to it.

[Kavishr17]

Thank you

[Amee432167]

Catparrot -ne is a agentive marker . signifying past actions. Used when there is an object for the verb, what got eaten? The apples. Research transitive verbs

[m_belqadr76]

Why apples and not apple?
Why has and not had(in the last question it wrote : Had he..) ?

[insysion]

It should be "Raj's father ate the apples"