"These are your grandfather and grandmother."
Translation:ये आपके दादा और दादी हैं।
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Just splitting hairs. दादा-दादी is 'grandparents' whereas दादा और दादी is 'grandfather and grandmother'.
Please explain how are we supposed to know whether they are maternal or paternal grandparents when translating from English?
It should accept both दादा, दादी (paternal grandparents) and नाना, नानी (maternal grandparents). You can report the sentence if it doesn't.
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Why ये आपकी दादा और दादी हौं gets a typo error ?
Why आपके is correct isn't the feminine words gets superiority over plural subjects ??
For mixed gender groups, you should use the masculine plural form.
अपने is a 'reflexive' pronoun, used to refer back to ('reflect') the sentence's grammatical subject; in this case that's ये, so using अपने would be like trying to say 'they're their own grandparents'.
(But it doesn't necessarily have even that sort of maybe-usable for comic effect meaning in Hindi, it might just be gibberish, I'm not sure.)
Idiomatically, how much does it matter if I say दादा और दादी or दादी और दादा? Here the direct translation was 'grandfather and grandmother', but conventionally, what do people say?
When you separate the words with an और, it's a toss-up between the two but in the hyphenated form to say 'grandparents' (because Hindi does not have a single word for this), दादा-दादी is more common. Similarly, नाना-नानी for maternal grandparents. However, while saying 'parents', the mom comes first - माँ-बाप or माता-पिता.
Thanks, Vinay, I was just wondering that. In German we'd always put the females first to be polite, when listing people.
दादा और दादी and दादा-दादी one and the same thing (-) consider (and,और) in this way my ans is correct.
Means the same thing, but दादा-दादी is a bit more like 'grandparents' in English, and Duolingo seems to strictly require those translations - i.e. और form -> 'grandmother and grandfather', and '-' form -> 'grandparents'.
Why is it wrong to repeat aapke befo re grandmother? Should this be accepted as an alternative?
Firstly because it would be aap ki; secondly because then the English should really be 'your grandfather and your grandmother'.
