"Her father's name is Peter."
Translation:उसके पिता का नाम पीटर है।
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'उसके पिता' is in the oblique case. This is when a noun is an object of a postposition (in this case का). The oblique form of उसका is उसके.
Could you please explain in other words and give examples - I do not understand at all terms like "oblique case", "postposition" etc.
Prepositions and postpositions are parts of speech which indicate various relations between nouns and other parts of a sentence.
In English, we use prepositions like 'in', 'for', until', 'from' and so on. These are called prepositions because they come before the noun they are connected to. For example, 'in India', 'for Neha', 'until today'. These nouns (or noun phrases like in 'from my house') that come after the prepositions are called objects of the prepositions.
On the other hand, Hindi uses postpositions which come after the noun they are connected to (ie, their object). For example, 'भारत से', 'नेहा केलिए', 'आज तक', 'मेरे घर से' etc where ' से, केलिए, तक, से are postpositions and 'भारत', 'नेहा', 'आज', 'मेरे घर' are nouns/noun phrases that are their objects.
Such nouns that are objects of postpositions in Hindi are said to be in the 'oblique case' and may have a different form than normal. I have written a bit more about the oblique case here.
पिता and other words referring to male relatives like दादा, मामा, चाचा etc are exceptions to the rule that masculine nouns ending in ा get a े in the oblique case. The oblique case form of पिता is पिता itself.
उसका is his/her (referring to a single person) and उनका is their (referring to multiple people). However, उनका can also be used for a single person when you are being respectful
The का agrees with नाम which is singular. The respectful plural is only for words referring to people so it doesn't apply to नाम.
For me it only shower उसका as an option but isn't that wrong in this case? I'm confused..
Unkii or unke are used when there are more than one people are referred. Example: who is their father? You have to answer using unki or unke. Here we are talking about just her/his father, hence uske
