मैं माँ और पिता का आदर करती हूँ।

Here is a word-by-word breakdown:

• मैं = I
• माँ = mother
• और = and
• पिता = father
• का = a genitive marker, here linking माँ और पिता with आदर
• आदर = respect
• करती = do, feminine singular habitual form of करना
• हूँ = the first-person singular form of to be

A very literal sense is:

I do respect of mother and father

Natural English is simply the meaning you were shown.

Hindi often expresses actions with a noun + करना structure.

So:

• आदर = respect
• आदर करना = to show respect / to respect

This is very common in Hindi. A lot of ideas that English expresses with one verb are often expressed in Hindi as:

• a noun
• plus करना

For example:

• फ़ैसला करना = to decide
• मदद करना = to help
• आदर करना = to respect

So आदर करती हूँ is completely normal Hindi.

करती हूँ tells you two important things:

1. The speaker is female
2. The sentence is in the habitual/simple present

So this means something like:

• I respect
• I do respect
• I am someone who respects

If the speaker were male, it would be:

मैं माँ और पिता का आदर करता हूँ।

This is because Hindi commonly uses the pattern:

X का आदर करना = to respect X

So in this sentence:

• माँ और पिता = the people being respected
• का आदर = respect of / respect toward

This is an idiomatic Hindi structure. English uses a direct verb, but Hindi often builds it this way.

So the sentence is not random word order. It follows a common Hindi pattern.

A very common learner mistake is to think का/की/के must agree with माँ और पिता. Here, it does not.

In this structure, का agrees with आदर, because आदर is the noun it belongs to.

• आदर is masculine singular
• so the form is का

That is why you get:

माँ और पिता का आदर

If the noun were feminine, the form would change. For example:

• इज़्ज़त is feminine
• so you would say माँ और पिता की इज़्ज़त करती हूँ

So the choice of का/की/के depends on the following noun, not on माँ or पिता.

That is a very natural question.

Hindi does often use को with people, but not with every expression. With आदर करना, Hindi usually uses the pattern:

X का आदर करना

not

X को आदर करना

So this is something you learn as part of the expression itself.

You can think of it as a set phrase:

• आदर करना
• इज़्ज़त करना
• often with a genitive pattern like का/की

So this is about idiomatic usage, not just a general rule about people.

Because the verb is agreeing with the subject, not the object.

The subject here is:

मैं = I

And मैं is singular, so the verb is singular:

• करती हूँ for a female speaker
• करता हूँ for a male speaker

The fact that माँ और पिता refers to two people does not make the verb plural here.

Hindi often leaves out possessives with close family relationships when the meaning is obvious from context.

So माँ can often naturally mean:

• mother
• my mother

And पिता can often naturally mean:

• father
• my father

If you want to make my explicit, you can. For example:

• मैं अपनी माँ और अपने पिता का आदर करती हूँ।
• more naturally: मैं अपने माता-पिता का आदर करती हूँ।

So omitting my is normal and not incomplete.

It is understandable, but it sounds a little mixed in register.

Why?

• माँ is very everyday and personal
• पिता is more formal

So a native speaker might more naturally say one of these:

• माता-पिता = parents, fairly standard/formal-neutral
• माँ और पिताजी = mother and father, respectful
• मम्मी-पापा = very informal/familial

So your sentence is grammatical, but माँ और पिता is not the most natural pairing stylistically.

It is the simple/habitual present, not the present continuous.

So it means a general fact or regular attitude:

• I respect my mother and father
• I am respectful toward my mother and father

It does not mean that the action is happening right now in a continuous sense.

A present continuous form would be something like:

मैं ... आदर कर रही हूँ

But with आदर करना, the simple present is much more natural for a general statement like this.

A male speaker would say:

मैं माँ और पिता का आदर करता हूँ।

The only change is:

• करती हूँ → करता हूँ

That is because Hindi marks the speaker’s gender in this kind of present habitual sentence.

Yes. इज़्ज़त करना is also very common and often sounds more everyday in conversation.

For example:

मैं माँ और पिता की इज़्ज़त करती हूँ।

Notice that now it is की, not का, because:

• इज़्ज़त is feminine
• so the genitive marker becomes की

So:

• आदर → का आदर
• इज़्ज़त → की इज़्ज़त

Both are correct, but इज़्ज़त is often more conversational.

Both contain nasalization, which is important in Hindi.

• माँ sounds roughly like maa, but with the vowel nasalized
• हूँ sounds roughly like hoon, also with nasalization

A simple learner-friendly guide:

• माँ = long aa with nasal sound
• हूँ = hoo plus a nasal ending

Try not to pronounce them as completely plain maa and hoo without any nasal quality, because the nasalization is part of normal Hindi pronunciation.