पानी ठंडा है।

The water is cold.

Breakdown of पानी ठंडा है।

• होना: to be
• पानी: water
• ठंडा: cold

Questions & Answers about पानी ठंडा है।

How do you pronounce पानी ठंडा है?

A common transliteration is pānī ṭhaṇḍā hai.

A rough English-friendly guide is paa-nee thun-daa hai, but a few sounds are not exactly English:

• ठ is a retroflex, strongly aspirated ṭh, not the th of thin or this
• ड is a retroflex ḍ
• है is written hai, though in natural speech it is often pronounced closer to heh than English high

So the whole sentence is roughly paa-nee thun-daa heh/hai.

What is each word doing in the sentence?

• पानी = water
• ठंडा = cold
• है = is

So the literal order is water cold is.

Grammatically:

• पानी is the subject
• ठंडा is a predicate adjective describing the subject
• है is the present-tense form of to be

Why is the word order पानी ठंडा है instead of an English-like order?

Hindi usually puts the main verb at the end of the clause. That is why है comes last.

With a sentence like this, the pattern is:

subject + adjective/complement + है

So:

• पानी ठंडा है = The water is cold

This is very normal Hindi word order.