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- "मैंने हाथी देखे ।"
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When the "subject" takes ने, the verb agrees with the "object" (elephants). Since that's plural, it's देखे.
Yep but in Hindi you can often use the singular version of the noun even if you are meaning plural, not sure if that's 100% grammatically correct, but everyone speaks like this. Then the way you tell whether they are talking about singular or plural elephants is the verb at the end, here देखे, so plural. हाथियों would also be correct though.
If you use हाथियों then the sentence needs to change to - मैंने हाथियों को देखा।
Why would you need to change the sentence if you changed elephant to elephants?
Sometimes in English we use singular when talking about game, but it's a very special locution.
In direct case (which is what "elephants" is in here since it is the direct object), हाथी is the same in both singular and plural. हाथियों would be plural oblique case.
