कपड़ों की टोकरी से कपड़े निकालकर छाँटिए।

Take the clothes out of the laundry basket and sort them.

Breakdown of कपड़ों की टोकरी से कपड़े निकालकर छाँटिए।

• से: from
• कपड़ा: clothing
• निकालना: to withdraw; take out
• कपड़ों की टोकरी: laundry basket

Questions & Answers about कपड़ों की टोकरी से कपड़े निकालकर छाँटिए।

Why does कपड़े appear twice, once as कपड़ों and then as कपड़े?

Because the noun is in two different grammatical forms.

• कपड़ों is the plural oblique form of कपड़े / कपड़ा
• कपड़े here is the plural direct form

In this sentence:

• कपड़ों की टोकरी = basket of clothes
• कपड़े निकालकर = taking out the clothes

Hindi nouns often change form before postpositions or in certain constructions.

A simple way to think about it:

• direct form: used when the noun stands on its own as the object/subject
• oblique form: used before a postposition or in genitive phrases like this one

So कपड़ों is used because it is part of कपड़ों की टोकरी, while कपड़े is used as the object of निकालकर.

Why is it कपड़ों की टोकरी and not कपड़ों का टोकरी?

Because का / की / के agrees with the thing being possessed, not with the possessor.

Here:

• कपड़ों = of clothes
• टोकरी = basket
• टोकरी is feminine singular

So the genitive marker must be की:

• कपड़ों की टोकरी = the basket of clothes / the clothes basket