वह लड़की संगीत सुन रही है।

वह can mean he, she, it, or that, depending on context.

In this sentence, because the noun लड़की means girl, learners usually understand वह लड़की as:

• that girl
• or, in some contexts, simply she / the girl

Hindi does not have separate everyday words for he and she the way English does. Context tells you which one is meant.

Hindi usually follows Subject–Object–Verb word order, while English usually follows Subject–Verb–Object.

So here:

• वह लड़की = subject
• संगीत = object
• सुन रही है = verb phrase

That is why the object संगीत comes before the verb.

A very rough structure is:

• That girl
  • music
    • is listening

This is normal Hindi sentence order.

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

So लड़की can mean:

• a girl
• the girl
• just girl in a general grammatical sense

The exact meaning depends on context. In this sentence, English may translate it as the girl or that girl, but Hindi does not need a separate article word.

सुन रही है is the present progressive form of सुनना (to listen / to hear in many contexts).

It is made of:

• सुन — the verb root/stem (listen / hear)
• रही — part of the progressive construction
• है — is

Together, सुन रही है means:

• is listening
• sometimes is hearing, depending on context

So this is the equivalent of the English be + verb-ing form.

Because लड़की is a feminine singular noun.

In the progressive construction, the participle agrees with the subject:

• masculine singular: रहा
• feminine singular: रही
• plural (often): रहे

So:

• वह लड़का सुन रहा है = That boy is listening
• वह लड़की सुन रही है = That girl is listening

The feminine noun लड़की requires रही.

है is the present-tense form of to be for singular subjects.

In this sentence, it works with रही to make the present progressive:

• सुन रही है = is listening

If the subject were plural, you would usually use हैं instead:

• वे लड़कियाँ संगीत सुन रही हैं।
• Those girls are listening to music.

So है helps show present tense and matches a singular subject.

Because this sentence is in the present progressive, not the perfective.

Hindi often uses ने with transitive verbs in perfective sentences, but not usually in present progressive ones.

So:

• वह लड़की संगीत सुन रही है। = no ने
• but in a perfective sentence you may get something like:
  • उस लड़की ने संगीत सुना।
  • That girl listened to music.

This is part of Hindi’s split ergative system, which learners usually meet a bit later.

Yes, संगीत means music, and it is completely correct here.

A small nuance:

• संगीत is a broad word for music
• गाना / गाने often refers to song / songs

So:

• संगीत सुनना = to listen to music
• गाना सुनना = to listen to a song

Both are common, but संगीत is a nice general word for music.

Yes. Hindi सुनना can cover both ideas, and context usually makes the meaning clear.

Examples:

• मैं संगीत सुन रहा हूँ। = I am listening to music.
• क्या तुमने आवाज़ सुनी? = Did you hear the sound?

So in your sentence, because the object is music, the natural English translation is is listening to music.

Yes, you can.

Hindi often omits pronouns or demonstratives when the context is clear. So:

• वह लड़की संगीत सुन रही है। = That girl is listening to music.
• लड़की संगीत सुन रही है। = The girl is listening to music.

Adding वह makes the noun phrase more specific, often like that girl.

A common transliteration is:

vah laṛkī saṅgīt sun rahī hai

A few pronunciation notes:

• वह is often pronounced closer to voh in everyday speech
• ड़ in लड़की is a flapped retroflex sound, often written ṛ
• रही sounds roughly like ra-hee
• है is often pronounced like hai

So in natural speech, many speakers say something close to:

voh laṛkī saṅgīt sun rahī hai

Yes, depending on context.

Because वह can function both as a demonstrative (that) and a third-person pronoun (he/she/it), the sentence may be understood in more than one way.

However, since वह is directly followed by लड़की, the most straightforward reading is:

• that girl is listening to music

If you just wanted she is listening to music, you would more naturally say:

• वह संगीत सुन रही है।

It is more than one word.

The progressive in Hindi is built analytically, using multiple parts:

• main verb stem: सुन
• progressive participle element: रही
• auxiliary: है

So Hindi forms is listening with a phrase rather than with a single changed verb form.

This is why learners often think of it as:

• सुन = listen
• रही = ongoing action, feminine singular
• है = is

Together: is listening.