वह आदमी बस में हिंदी पढ़ रहा है।

to be

Breakdown of वह आदमी बस में हिंदी पढ़ रहा है।

• वह: that
• आदमी: man
• हिंदी: Hindi

Questions & Answers about वह आदमी बस में हिंदी पढ़ रहा है।

Why does वह mean he here, when I thought it meant that?

वह can mean both he/she and that, depending on context.

In this sentence, वह आदमी literally means that man, but in natural English it is often translated simply as the man or understood as he if the person is already known from context.

So:

• वह = that / he / she
• Hindi often uses the same word for a demonstrative and a third-person pronoun.

Also, in everyday speech, वह is often pronounced more like वो.

Why is there no word for the or a in the sentence?

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

So आदमी can mean:

• a man
• the man
• sometimes just man, depending on context

The exact meaning comes from the situation, not from an article.

Why is आदमी used here, and what gender is it?

आदमी means man or sometimes more generally person, though in a sentence like this it is usually understood as man.

Grammatically, it is treated as here. That matters because the verb phrase agrees with it: