"He has been here for ten minutes."
Translation:वह दस मिनट से यहाँ है।
November 29, 2018
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My professor told me that वह is usually pronunced vo, and यह is pronounced ye (making it indistinguishable from ये). People will understand you if you pronounce वह as "vaha" but it'll sound stiff and formal.
In general, ह has a tendency to mess up the vowels around it. There are some patterns you can memorize (I can't recall them at the moment) but you'll learn to pick them up. Examples:
- बहन - behen
- वह - vo
- यह - ye
- बहुत - bohat
Some exceptions: कहाँ, वहाँ, यहाँ are still pronounced as expected. I don't know if the nasalization has anything to do with that.
(India is a big country so this may not be the case everywhere; my professor is from Jaipur.)
Algunillo
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Why not वह दस मिनटों से यहां है?
Since "minutes" is plural and in the oblique case... But it was marked wrong.