"यह लड़की चलती है।"
Translation:This girl walks.
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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'.
When something is male u say AA at the end and when female u say II at the end
चलता is when the subject is male and चलती is when the subject is female.
Also, I know it's probably a typo but note that जलती/जलता with the letter ज(ja) instead of च(cha) means 'burn'.
The answer is wrong. It is doesn't translate to this girl walks. It translates to Here, Girl walks or Girl walks here.
The first word is यह. It is usually pronounced 'ye' but the TTS voice that Duolingo uses pronounces it as 'yaha'. You're thinking of यहाँ - 'yahan', which means 'here'.
