Questions & Answers about क्या आपको उस आदमी का नाम याद है?
What does क्या mean at the beginning of the sentence? Does it mean what here?
At the start of this sentence, क्या is a yes/no question marker. It does not mean what here.
So:
- क्या आपको उस आदमी का नाम याद है? = Do you remember that man's name?
In other contexts, क्या can mean what, but sentence position matters a lot:
- क्या हुआ? = What happened?
- क्या आपको... याद है? = Do you... remember?
In everyday speech, Hindi can also ask this without क्या, just by using question intonation:
- आपको उस आदमी का नाम याद है?
That is also natural.
Why is it आपको instead of just आप?
Because Hindi uses the expression याद होना in a different way from English to remember.
A very literal way to understand it is:
- आपको ... याद है = To you ... is remembered
So the person who remembers is often marked with को.
Examples:
- मुझे याद है = I remember
- तुम्हें याद है = you remember
- उसे याद है = he/she remembers
- आपको याद है = you remember (polite)
So is not random; it is the normal pattern with .