"Sugar is sweet."

Translation: चीनी मीठी होती है।

[inbetweener]

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?

[vinay92]

'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.

[AjayKumar762389]

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"
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