कुत्ता भौंकता है और घाव खुजलाता है।

• कुत्ता = dog
• भौंकता है = barks / does bark
• और = and
• घाव = wound
• खुजलाता है = scratches

So the sentence is structured as Dog barks and wound scratches, but in natural English the understood meaning is The dog barks and scratches a wound / its wound.

Because the sentence contains two coordinated verb phrases:

• कुत्ता भौंकता है = the dog barks
• घाव खुजलाता है = scratches a wound

Hindi commonly keeps है with each clause or verb phrase in this kind of sentence. It helps complete each predicate.

The -ता ending is part of the habitual present form.

So:

• भौंकता है = barks / usually barks / does bark
• खुजलाता है = scratches / usually scratches

This form is often used for habitual, general, or simple present meaning. It is not the usual form for something happening right this second.

Because the subject कुत्ता is masculine singular.

In this kind of sentence, the verb agrees with the subject, so with a masculine singular subject you get:

• भौंकता है
• खुजलाता है

If the subject were feminine, for example कुतिया = female dog, you would say:

• कुतिया भौंकती है और घाव खुजलाती है।

By default, it means barks or habitually barks.

If you want to say the dog is barking right now, Hindi usually uses the progressive:

• कुत्ता भौंक रहा है। = The dog is barking.

Likewise, for ongoing scratching, you would normally use a progressive form such as:

• कुत्ता अपना घाव खुजला रहा है। = The dog is scratching its wound.

So भौंकता है / खुजलाता है is more like a general or habitual statement than an action in progress.

It is the object, not the subject.

The subject कुत्ता is understood to continue into the second half. Hindi often omits a repeated subject when it is obvious.

So the full sense is:

• कुत्ता भौंकता है और (कुत्ता) घाव खुजलाता है।

Because Hindi is typically SOV (Subject-Object-Verb), the object घाव comes before the verb खुजलाता है.

Hindi often leaves out things that are understood from context.

If it is obvious that the dog is scratching its own wound, Hindi may simply say घाव खुजलाता है. But if you want to make that relationship explicit, a more natural version is:

• कुत्ता भौंकता है और अपने घाव को खुजलाता है।

Here अपने means one's own and clearly shows that the wound belongs to the dog.

Because direct objects in Hindi do not always need को.

With inanimate objects like घाव, leaving out को is often normal. So both of these can work:

• घाव खुजलाता है
• घाव को खुजलाता है

Adding को can make the object marking more explicit, but it is not always required, especially with non-human objects.

Hindi does not have articles like English a, an, and the.

So कुत्ता can mean:

• a dog
• the dog

And घाव can mean:

• a wound
• the wound

Context tells you which one is intended.

It is understandable, but many learners would find the second part clearer in a slightly fuller version, especially if the intended meaning is its wound.

A more explicit and natural version would be:

• कुत्ता भौंकता है और अपने घाव को खुजलाता है।

Why this sounds clearer:

• अपने makes it clear the wound is the dog's own
• को marks घाव clearly as the object

So the original sentence is grammatically interpretable, but the expanded version removes ambiguity.