"यह लड़की चलती है।"
Translation:This girl walks.
November 25, 2018
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ziliya
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It sounds like "chalti", but shoud be "chalati" (extra vowel). Am I hearing this wrong? Is it a bad recording? Is there some linguistic phenomenon here?
The 'a' vowel is not pronounced in a lot of places due to the phenomenon of Schwa deletion. This happens most notably at the end of a word (eg: भारत is pronounced 'Bharat' and not 'Bharata', आम is 'ām' and not 'āma' etc) but can also happen in the middle of a word.
So, चलती is written 'calati' but pronounced 'calti'.