"चीनी मीठी होती है।"

Translation: Sugar is sweet.

[Kanageshwa]

Why not the sugar is sweet

[eliasquiroz14]

I still wanderwhy

[Gita-ji]

Probably because of hotī.
It makes it a generalisation, so we don't use the definite article the, which refers to some specific sugar.

[Shraghav]

Hoti refers to universal fact

[Msm275]

Because the sentence is talking about sugar in general not particularly

[William80638]

Why do we use होती here?

[vinay92]

'होती है' is used when you are making generalizations or talking about universal truths.

[Maheshwara19]

Why cant we use होत| here? Is चीनी feminine?

[vinay92]

Yes. Cheeni is feminine. For a masculine noun, you'd use meetha and hota.

आम मीठा होता है - A mango is sweet

[Aastha405299]

Yes

[Ishwari_Gajare]

For a second I thought about China

[ph.lbBcFT]

Sugar is sweet

[tizerzert]

It sounds very funny ! ^_^

[swatipandit44444]

I'm also sweet

[SMASH_24]

No i won't believe

[NaeemArshi]

Is Ka kiya matlab h

[AlejandroDrago]

☺️☺️☺️

[Zaviva]

Eeny meeny miny moe

[--none--]

_so are you_

[SUMITOJWANI]

Sugar are sweet