यह पालतू जानवर है।

A common pronunciation is:

yah paaltū jaanvar hai

In everyday speech, यह is very often pronounced yeh, so you may also hear:

yeh paaltū jaanvar hai

A rough English-style guide:

• यह = yah / yeh
• पालतू = paa-l-too
• जानवर = jaa-nuh-vur / jaan-var
• है = hai (rhymes roughly with eye, but shorter)

So the whole sentence sounds like:

yeh paaltū jaanvar hai

Here is the breakdown:

• यह = this
• पालतू = pet / domesticated
• जानवर = animal
• है = is

So structurally, the sentence is:

This + pet animal + is

Hindi often puts is/are at the end, unlike English.

Because Hindi sentence order is different from English.

English usually says:

This is a pet animal.

Hindi usually follows a pattern where the verb comes at the end:

यह पालतू जानवर है।

So the है goes last. This is completely normal in Hindi.

Hindi does not normally use an indefinite article like English a or an.

So where English says:

This is a pet animal

Hindi simply says:

यह paltu jaanvar है

The idea of a/an is usually understood from context. This is one of the most common differences English speakers notice.

यह usually means this, but depending on context it can also function like he, she, or this person/this thing.

For example:

• यह किताब है। = This is a book.
• यह मेरा दोस्त है। = He is my friend / This is my friend

So यह is a very flexible word. In your sentence, it is best understood as this.

This is a very common learner question.

• यह is the standard written form.
• In normal speech, many speakers pronounce it more like yeh.
• In very casual speech, some speakers may even use ये where careful grammar would expect यह.

So:

• यह = standard written Hindi
• yeh = very common spoken pronunciation

This is similar to how spoken English often reduces words compared with formal writing.

Yes, पालतू is functioning like an adjective describing जानवर.

It means something like:

• domesticated
• pet

In many common uses, पालतू does not visibly change form for gender or number, so you can use it with many nouns without changing it.

Examples:

• पालतू कुत्ता = pet dog
• पालतू बिल्ली = pet cat
• पालतू जानवर = pet animal

So in this sentence, पालतू stays the same.

जानवर is generally treated as masculine.

However, in this sentence, that does not create an obvious change you need to memorize yet, because:

• पालतू does not visibly change here
• है is used for singular regardless of masculine/feminine

So even though जानवर is masculine, this sentence does not show much visible gender marking.

The plural version is:

ये पालतू जानवर हैं।

This means:

These are pet animals.

Changes:

• यह → ये
• है → हैं

So:

• यह पालतू जानवर है। = This is a pet animal.
• ये पालतू जानवर हैं। = These are pet animals.

Yes, in the right context.

यह पालतू है means something like:

This is a pet / This one is domesticated

This can work if the noun is already understood from context. But यह पालतू जानवर है is clearer and more explicit, because it literally says This is a pet animal.

So:

• यह पालतू है = shorter, context-dependent
• यह पालतू जानवर है = fuller, clearer

That mark is called the danda.

It is the traditional full stop used in Devanagari script. It works like a period in English.

So:

• English: .
• Hindi/Devanagari: ।

In modern informal typing, people sometimes use a regular period instead, but । is the standard mark in proper Hindi writing.