लाइब्रेरियन उपन्यास का सुझाव देता है।

The librarian recommends a novel.

Breakdown of लाइब्रेरियन उपन्यास का सुझाव देता है।

• होना: to be
• का: of
• लाइब्रेरियन: librarian
• उपन्यास: novel

Questions & Answers about लाइब्रेरियन उपन्यास का सुझाव देता है।

What does लाइब्रेरियन mean, and is it actually a Hindi word?

लाइब्रेरियन is the Hindi spelling of the English loanword librarian.

Hindi uses many modern borrowed words, especially for jobs, technology, and institutions. So this is completely normal Hindi, just written in Devanagari script.

A rough transliteration is laaibreeriyan.

Why is the verb at the end of the sentence?

Because Hindi normally follows Subject–Object–Verb word order.

So:

• लाइब्रेरियन = the librarian
• उपन्यास का सुझाव = the suggestion of/about a novel
• देता है = gives

Literally, the structure is something like:

The librarian a novel’s suggestion gives.

That is normal Hindi sentence order.

What does देता है mean here? Why not just use a verb meaning suggests?

Hindi often uses a noun + light verb combination instead of a single verb.

Here:

• सुझाव = suggestion
• देना = to give

So सुझाव देना literally means to give a suggestion, which in English we usually translate as to suggest.

देता है is the masculine singular present/habitual form of देना:

• वह देता है = he gives / he does give
• in this sentence: gives a suggestion / suggests

So even though English uses one main verb, Hindi often expresses the same idea with a noun plus देना.