वह बच्चा मेज़ से सेब ले रहा है।

Hindi वह can work as both:

• a demonstrative: that
• a third-person pronoun: he / she / it

So वह बच्चा can mean:

• that child
• he, the child in context

Hindi often does not force the same distinction English does. Context tells you which meaning is intended.

A few related forms:

• यह = this / he / she (near the speaker)
• वह = that / he / she (farther away, or simply third person)

In everyday speech, these are often pronounced:

• यह → ये
• वह → वो

बच्चा means child or kid, and grammatically it is a masculine singular noun.

So depending on context, it may refer to:

• a boy
• a male child
• sometimes just a child when the gender is known from grammar or context

The feminine form is:

• बच्ची = girl / female child

The plural forms are:

• बच्चे = children or boys
• बच्चियाँ = girls

Because the sentence uses ले रहा है, which is masculine singular, it matches बच्चा.

से is a very common Hindi postposition. In this sentence, it means from.

So:

• मेज़ = table
• मेज़ से = from the table / off the table

Here, से marks the source or starting point of the action: the apple is being taken from the table.

Common uses of से include:

• from: दिल्ली से = from Delhi
• with / by: चाकू से = with a knife
• than: मुझसे बड़ा = bigger than me

In this sentence, the from meaning is the important one.

Hindi word order is usually more flexible than English, but the basic pattern is:

Subject + other information + object + verb

So in this sentence:

• वह बच्चा = subject
• मेज़ से = from the table
• सेब = apple
• ले रहा है = is taking

That gives:

वह बच्चा मेज़ से सेब ले रहा है।

A very natural English translation is The child is taking an apple from the table, but Hindi does not have to match English word order exactly.

This is the present progressive construction, equivalent to English is taking.

It has three parts:

• ले = stem related to take
• रहा = progressive marker
• है = is

So:

• ले रहा है = is taking

This pattern is extremely common in Hindi:

• खा रहा है = is eating
• जा रहा है = is going
• पढ़ रहा है = is reading/studying

So once you learn this pattern, you can recognize many similar sentences.

Because the sentence describes an action in progress right now.

Compare:

• ले रहा है = is taking
  ongoing action, happening now

• लेता है = takes / does take
  habitual action, general behavior, or simple present meaning

Examples:

• वह सेब ले रहा है। = He is taking the apple.
• वह रोज़ सेब लेता है। = He takes an apple every day.

So ले रहा है is the correct form for a present continuous idea.

Because रहा agrees with the subject here, which is बच्चा, a masculine singular noun.

Progressive forms change for gender and number:

• रहा = masculine singular
• रही = feminine singular
• रहे = masculine plural, or polite singular in some contexts

Examples:

• वह बच्चा सेब ले रहा है। = The boy/child is taking an apple.
• वह बच्ची सेब ले रही है। = The girl is taking an apple.
• वे बच्चे सेब ले रहे हैं। = The children are taking apples.

So रहा matches बच्चा.

Hindi usually puts the main verb phrase at the end of the sentence.

So where English says:

• The child is taking an apple

Hindi says, more literally:

• The child apple taking is

That is why है comes at the end, as part of the full verb phrase ले रहा है.

This verb-final pattern is one of the biggest differences between Hindi and English.

Hindi has no direct equivalent of English articles a/an/the in most ordinary sentences.

So:

• बच्चा can mean a child or the child
• सेब can mean an apple or the apple

Context decides which English article sounds best in translation.

That is very normal in Hindi. Learners often want to insert a or the somewhere mentally, but Hindi usually just leaves that unspecified unless context makes it clear.

The dictionary form of the verb is लेना = to take.

In actual sentences, Hindi usually does not use the full -ना infinitive form. Instead, it uses a stem or derived form before tense/aspect markers.

So:

• dictionary form: लेना
• progressive form: ले रहा है

Similarly:

• खाना → खा रहा है
• पीना → पी रहा है
• जाना → जा रहा है

So nothing unusual is happening here; Hindi is just using the verb in a conjugated form rather than the infinitive.

Yes, and the meaning would shift slightly.

• ले रहा है = is taking
• उठा रहा है = is picking up / lifting

So:

• वह बच्चा मेज़ से सेब ले रहा है।
  The child is taking an apple from the table.

• वह बच्चा मेज़ से सेब उठा रहा है।
  The child is picking up an apple from the table.

ले रहा है focuses more on the act of taking, while उठा रहा है focuses more on the physical motion of lifting/picking up.

मेज़ is a borrowed word, commonly used in Hindi for table. Borrowed words are extremely common in everyday Hindi.

You may also see or hear:

• टेबल = table

Both are understandable, though actual usage depends on region, register, and speaker preference.

This is a useful reminder that modern Hindi vocabulary comes from several sources, including Sanskrit, Persian, Arabic, and English.

A simple pronunciation guide would be:

vah bachchaa mez se seb le rahaa hai

But in everyday speech, many speakers say:

vo bachchaa mez se seb le rahaa hai

A few pronunciation notes:

• वह is often spoken as वो
• बच्चा has a doubled ch sound: bach-chaa
• मेज़ sounds like mez
• सेब sounds like seb
• रहा sounds like ra-haa

A natural spoken version would be close to:

vo bachchaa mez se seb le rahaa hai

You would change the noun and the agreeing part of the verb:

• वह बच्ची मेज़ से सेब ले रही है।

Changes:

• बच्चा → बच्ची
• रहा → रही

Everything else stays the same.

So the pattern is:

• masculine: ले रहा है
• feminine: ले रही है

That is a very important agreement pattern in Hindi.