तुम यह सवाल क्यों लिख रही हो?

A word-by-word breakdown:

• तुम = you
• यह = this
• सवाल = question
• क्यों = why
• लिख = the verb root write
• रही = part of the progressive form, showing an ongoing action and feminine agreement
• हो = are

So the structure is basically:

you + this question + why + writing + are?

Hindi often puts the verb at the end, so this is normal.

Hindi has different levels of you:

• तू = very intimate, very informal, sometimes rude depending on context
• तुम = informal but common and friendly
• आप = respectful or formal

So तुम suggests the speaker is talking to someone they know in a casual way.

If you wanted a more polite version, you would say:

आप यह सवाल क्यों लिख रही हैं?

Notice that the verb changes too.

यह is the singular form meaning this.

• यह = this
• ये = these, or sometimes this in everyday speech

In careful written Hindi, यह is standard here because सवाल is singular.

In conversation, many speakers may say ये सवाल even when they mean this question, but in textbooks and standard writing, यह सवाल is the expected form.

Both सवाल and प्रश्न can mean question, but they feel a little different:

• सवाल = very common in everyday Hindi/Urdu-influenced speech
• प्रश्न = more formal, literary, or academic

So this sentence sounds natural and conversational with सवाल.

A more formal version would be:

तुम यह प्रश्न क्यों लिख रही हो?

In Hindi, question words like कौन, क्या, कब, क्यों, कैसे usually appear before the verb, often near the thing they are questioning.

So:

तुम यह सवाल क्यों लिख रही हो?

is the normal word order.

Hindi is somewhat flexible, but this version is the most natural. English uses Why are you writing this question?, while Hindi keeps the main verb phrase at the end.

लिख रही हो is the present progressive, meaning the action is happening right now or is in progress.

• लिख रही हो = are writing
• लिखती हो = write / usually write / do write, depending on context

So:

• तुम यह सवाल क्यों लिख रही हो? = Why are you writing this question?
• तुम यह सवाल क्यों लिखती हो? = Why do you write this question? / Why do you write questions like this?

The progressive form is made with:

verb root + रहा / रही / रहे + form of होना

Here that becomes:

लिख + रही + हो

Because the sentence is addressing a female person.

In this kind of Hindi verb form, रहा / रही / रहे agrees with the subject:

• रहा = masculine singular
• रही = feminine singular
• रहे = masculine plural, or sometimes used with आप

So:

• to a woman: तुम ... लिख रही हो
• to a man: तुम ... लिख रहे हो

This is one of the first things English speakers notice, because English does not usually change are writing based on gender.

हो is the form of होना used with तुम in the present tense.

Compare:

• मैं ... हूँ = I am
• तुम ... हो = you are
• वह ... है = he/she is
• हम ... हैं = we are
• आप ... हैं = you are

So लिख रही हो literally works like writing are.

Hindi often puts this helping verb at the end of the sentence.

It would become:

तुम यह सवाल क्यों लिख रहे हो?

Only रही changes to रहे.

So:

• speaking to a woman: लिख रही हो
• speaking to a man: लिख रहे हो

Everything else stays the same.

Yes, सवाल is generally masculine.

But in this sentence, the progressive verb लिख रही हो agrees with तुम (the person doing the action), not with सवाल (the thing being written).

So the gender of सवाल does not control रही here.

That is why you can say:

• to a woman: तुम यह सवाल लिख रही हो
• to a man: तुम यह सवाल लिख रहे हो

even though सवाल itself stays the same.

In many contexts, yes, it can mean either writing or typing, depending on the situation.

Hindi लिखना is often used broadly for producing text, whether by hand or on a device.

If the context is a phone, computer, or chat, listeners may naturally understand it as typing.

If you want to be very specific, you could say:

• टाइप कर रही हो = are typing
• लिख रही हो = are writing

But in everyday use, लिख रही ho can cover both.

Yes. Hindi often drops pronouns when the meaning is clear from context.

So you could simply say:

यह सवाल क्यों लिख रही हो?

That still naturally means Why are you writing this question?

Because हो already shows the sentence is talking to you, the pronoun is not always necessary.

Yes, it is natural, especially in a conversational context.

It sounds like something you might say if you are asking someone, casually:

• why they are writing a particular question
• why they chose that question
• why they are putting that question down right now

A more formal version would use आप and possibly प्रश्न, but this version is normal, clear, and everyday.

A simple pronunciation guide is:

tum yah savaal kyon likh rahi ho

A few notes:

• तुम sounds like tum
• यह is often pronounced close to yah
• सवाल = savaal
• क्यों = kyon
• रही = ra-hee
• हो = ho

In natural speech, यह may sound lighter and quicker than learners expect.