Questions & Answers about यह सबक आसान है।
Why does the sentence end with है?
है is the present-tense form of the verb to be for he/she/it/this/that and singular nouns in general.
So in यह सबक आसान है, है works like is in English:
- यह = this
- सबक = lesson
- आसान = easy
- है = is
Hindi often places the verb at the end, so है comes last.
Why is the word order different from English?
Hindi usually follows Subject–Object/Complement–Verb order, while English usually follows Subject–Verb–Complement.
So:
- English: This lesson is easy
- Hindi: This lesson easy is
That is completely normal in Hindi. The verb often comes at the end of the sentence.
What exactly does यह mean here?
यह means this (and sometimes he/she/it, depending on context).
In this sentence, it means this, because it is pointing to सबक:
- यह सबक = this lesson
A very common pronunciation in speech is yeh, even though it is written यह.