"How many cats are there?"
Translation:कितनी बिल्लियाँ हैं?
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Verb endings in present simple only end with ता ते ती. ती is used for all feminine subjects, whether they're singular or plural. This applies to a lot of question words as well, कितनी, कौनसी, किसकी, used for feminine, whether singular or plural. बिल्लियाँ कितनी हैं would be "How many are the cats" instead of "How many cats are there"
And btw if that's case then what's the difference between yeh kitna hai and kitna yeh hai ?
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It accepted वहाँ कितनी बिल्लियाँ हैं? for me.
Note that cats a feminine plural, so use the ī ending: कितनी
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There are two ways to interpret "there" here. I just used it as in the given answer. You give another. The meanings are slightly different, but both legit.
It will sound more appropriate..but a native speaker can infer the meaning in its absence as well..
No. The English is ambiguous. The clearer English question is, "There are how many cats?" This is less used than the given sentence, which has the ambiguity of location (over there). Duolingo might tidy up the English, for clarity's sake.
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When saying "How many cats are there?", if the stress is on the word "there", then add वहाँ to the translation.
If the stress is on the word "are", leave it out. For the "there" is just filling in the role of a subject for the sentence.
Why cats not first? In previous sentence, "They/how many/are? "but in this sentence, "How many/cats/are?" When I put "Cats/how many/are" it was marked wrong. So why in previous sentence it is "vey kitne hai" and not " kitne vey hai"?
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कितने is used with masculine plural.
कितनी is used with feminine plural.
बिल्लियाँ is feminine plural.
Nope, because बिल्लियाँ is feminine. कितने is indeed a word, if that's what you meant, but it's used for either masculine/mixed plural
Why kitne is false and kitni is right because Its plural, we should use kitne