"Sugar is sweet."
Translation:चीनी मीठी होती है।
April 24, 2019
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Why is this and others in this exercise hoti hai but others just hai? Doesn't that just mean "is is"? Can anyone explain please?
'होती है' is used when you're making a generalisation.
'चीनी मीठी है' is saying that some particular sugar is sweet. By including होती however, you are saying that sugar, in general, is sweet.
Actually "chini mithi hai" is correct in casual hindi but when we use proper hindi I mean in grammatical sense then it is "hoti hai" HOPE YOU ARE NOW SATISFIED!!
The course is trying to teach you the distinction between the general statement 'Sugar is sweet'/चीनी मीठी होती है (meaning all the sugar in the word is sweet) and the statement 'The sugar is sweet'/चीनी मीठी है referring to some particular sugar.