सुबह माँ मेज़ साफ करती है।

In the morning, mother cleans the table.

Breakdown of सुबह माँ मेज़ साफ करती है।

• होना: to be
• करना: to do
• माँ: mother
• सुबह: in the morning

Questions & Answers about सुबह माँ मेज़ साफ करती है।

Why is the sentence ordered सुबह माँ मेज़ साफ करती है instead of following English word order?

Hindi usually prefers Subject–Object–Verb order, not Subject–Verb–Object like English.

So the structure is:

• सुबह = time expression
• माँ = subject
• मेज़ = object
• साफ करती है = verb phrase

A very literal order would be:

In-the-morning mother table clean does-is

In natural English, that becomes Mother cleans the table in the morning or In the morning, mother cleans the table.

Also, Hindi is fairly flexible about word order, but this order is very normal.

Why is सुबह at the beginning, and why doesn’t it need a postposition?

सुबह can work as a time adverb by itself, meaning in the morning or morning time.

Hindi often uses time words without anything extra:

• सुबह = in the morning
• शाम = in the evening
• आज = today
• कल = yesterday/tomorrow

So सुबह at the beginning sets the time frame for the whole sentence. That is very natural in Hindi.

Why is the verb करती and not करता?

Because माँ is feminine singular.

In this kind of present habitual sentence, the verb agrees with the subject. The habitual form of changes like this: