"यह औरत चावल नहीं खाती।"
Translation:This woman does not eat rice.
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In present tense negative sentences that contain 'नहीं', using है/हो/हैं/हूँ is optional. It is perfectly fine if you include it but it is often omitted.
The only exception is if the sentence does not contain any other verb in which case है becomes mandatory. Eg: मैं लम्बा नहीं हूँ | (I'm not tall) where हूँ cannot be omitted
यह औरत चावल नहीं खाती है (my answer above)
It was rejected and I can't figure out why. I think it is requiring the है ?
Should have been accepted. You can report if you see the sentence again.
Because that isn't making use of proper grammar. I can't exactly explain, but if one were to say "This woman do not eat rice," out loud, it would sound wrong because the correct word instead of "do not" would be "doesn't" or "does not."
To elaborate:
I/you/they/we do not
he/she does not
Many verbs in English are like this when you are saying that someone does something. You add an "s" usually for he/she.
I eat
She works
They play
We run
He jumps
Yes. भात means 'cooked rice' and is used in some regions. The word can also be found in other Indian languages.
However, the word is not very popular across most of the Hindi belt and people use चावल for both cooked and uncooked rice.
Since 'woman' is singular (ekvachan), you need to use 'does'.
'Do' is for plural (bahuvachan) subjects.
My sentence is This lady does not eat rice .please any one tell me.why I am wrong