"यह मेरी किताब है।"

Translation: This is my book.

[nickdbush]

How do you know that मेरा is incorrect - the rest of the words in the sentence are either masculine or have no gender, correct?

[zeebo7]

किताब is feminine.

[NaveenY2J]

How can a book be referred to female?!

[AmiSUBHAM]

There is some objects which are feminine or masculine . All you need to do practice these to get this well.Keep practicing.

[RameshNate]

may be it is because books represent godess Saraswati? :) no one knows.

[Alex.Essilfie]

Welcome to the world outside English. In many languages, inanimate objects have a gender.

[themdenkmemes]

English used to have it too, and in some ways still does, like referring to a boat as a "she" or something like that.

[KatHawaii]

It showed to me as either "mer", "mera", or "mera" - I didn't even have the option to select "meree".

[IshikaGann]

How can I tell whether a noun is masculine or feminine.

[Zerenei]

Largely through simple memorization. You learn the genders over time. There is a general rule that nouns ending in आ are masculine and nouns ending in ई are feminine. Though there are a few exceptions I would say this rule apples 95% of the time. Nouns not ending in either you just have to memorize.

[AnindaMaju]

things dosent have gender so then why मेरा is wrong?

[Shivam551065]

This is my book

[parul167244]

You you are Indian

[ph.rrI3wB]

Amazing

[2MC47F4k]

This is impossible