"His sister lives in America."
Translation:उसकी बहन अमेरिका में रहती है।
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For the same reason, since behen is feminine, you use uski when referring to her, as well as conjugating verbs in the female form, since we are talking about a female, it is rehti, because verbs are conjugated according to the subject of the sentence, here "uski behen" which is feminine. So by the same token, "His brother lives in America" = उसका भाई अमेरिका में रहता है
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उसकी बहन अमेरिका में रहती है। means "Her/His sister lives in America."
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उसका भाई अमेरिका में रहता है। means "Her/His brother lives in America."
Note: उसका ("his," "her," "hers," "its," "of that") is a Possessive Pronoun-- which means that it declines like an adjective; it agrees with the thing possessed.
In sentence 1, बहन ("sister") is a feminine noun, so we use उसकी .
In sentence 2, भाई ("brother") is a masculine noun, so we use उसका.