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Questions & Answers about ट्रेडमिल नई है।
How do you pronounce ट्रेडमिल नई है?
A natural pronunciation is:
ṭreḍmil nayī hai
A rough English-friendly guide would be:
trayd-mill na-yee hai
A couple of notes:
- ट्रेडमिल is a borrowed English word written in Devanagari.
- नई is usually pronounced in two parts, roughly na-yee.
- है sounds like hai, not like English hey.
What does each word do in this sentence?
Here is the breakdown:
- ट्रेडमिल = treadmill
- नई = new
- है = is
So the structure is:
noun + adjective + is
That is a very common Hindi pattern for sentences like X is Y.
Why is नई used instead of नया?
Because the noun is being treated as feminine singular in this sentence.
The adjective नया changes form to match gender and number:
- masculine singular: नया
- feminine singular: नई
- plural / some oblique forms: नए
So:
- कमरा नया है = The room is new.
- किताब नई है = The book is new.
- ट्रेडमिल नई है = The treadmill is new.
How do we know that ट्रेडमिल is feminine?