मैं कभी-कभी बस से ऑफिस जाती हूँ।

Because the speaker is female.

In the present habitual, Hindi verbs agree with the subject’s gender and number.

• मैं ... जाता हूँ = a male speaker says I go
• मैं ... जाती हूँ = a female speaker says I go

So this sentence is spoken by a woman or girl. If a man were speaking, it would be:

मैं कभी-कभी बस से ऑफिस जाता हूँ।

कभी-कभी means sometimes.

Hindi often uses reduplication like this to show repeated, occasional, or less regular frequency. The repeated form sounds natural and idiomatic.

Compare:

• कभी = ever / sometime / sometimes in some contexts
• कभी-कभी = sometimes

So the repetition is not random; it is the normal way to say sometimes here.

से here marks the means or mode of transport, so बस से means by bus.

This is very common in Hindi:

• कार से = by car
• ट्रेन से = by train
• पैदल = on foot
• हवाई जहाज़ से = by airplane

So:

बस से ऑफिस जाती हूँ = I go to the office by bus

This is a very common question.

• बस से focuses on the means of travel = by bus
• बस में focuses on being inside the bus = in/on the bus

In many situations, both can appear, but the emphasis is different.

• मैं बस से ऑफिस जाती हूँ। = I go to the office by bus.
• मैं बस में बैठी हूँ। = I am sitting in the bus.
• मैं बस में ऑफिस जा रही हूँ। = I am going to the office in the bus.

For transport method, से is the normal choice.

In Hindi, destinations with verbs like जाना often do not need a separate word matching English to.

So Hindi naturally says:

• ऑफिस जाना = to go to the office
• घर जाना = to go home
• स्कूल जाना = to go to school

English needs to, but Hindi usually does not here. That is why ऑफिस appears directly before the verb phrase.

जाती हूँ is the present habitual form.

It is used for actions that happen regularly, usually, or from time to time. In English, it often translates as:

• I go
• I usually go
• I sometimes go

Because the sentence has कभी-कभी, the overall meaning becomes I sometimes go to the office by bus.

It is not the same as I am going right now. For that, Hindi would use:

मैं बस से ऑफिस जा रही हूँ।
if the speaker is female.

Hindi often forms the present habitual with:

verb stem + habitual ending + auxiliary

Here:

• जा- = verb root from जाना = to go
• जाती = habitual form, feminine singular
• हूँ = auxiliary for I am

Together, जाती हूँ literally works like go-ing am in structure, but the natural meaning is I go or I do go in a habitual sense.

For comparison:

• मैं जाता हूँ = I go, male speaker
• मैं जाती हूँ = I go, female speaker
• वह जाता है = he goes
• वह जाती है = she goes

Because Hindi normally follows a Subject–Object/Other information–Verb pattern, with the verb near the end.

So in this sentence:

• मैं = I
• कभी-कभी = sometimes
• बस से = by bus
• ऑफिस = office
• जाती हूँ = go

That final verb placement is very typical in Hindi. English word order is more rigid, but Hindi usually keeps the verb later.

Yes, Hindi word order is somewhat flexible, though some orders sound more natural than others.

This version is very natural:

मैं कभी-कभी बस से ऑफिस जाती हूँ।

You may also hear:

• मैं कभी-कभी ऑफिस बस se जाती हूँ।
• मैं बस से कभी-कभी ऑफिस जाती हूँ।

These are understandable, but they may shift emphasis slightly. The most neutral and natural learner-friendly pattern is the original one.

A good rule: keep the main verb phrase near the end.

It is a very common borrowed word from English, and it is widely used in everyday Hindi.

You can also say:

दफ़्तर = office

So both are possible:

• मैं कभी-कभी बस से ऑफिस जाती हूँ।
• मैं कभी-कभी बस से दफ़्तर जाती हूँ।

ऑफिस sounds very common in modern spoken Hindi, especially in urban contexts.

Yes, very often.

Hindi frequently drops the subject pronoun when it is already clear from context. So a speaker could simply say:

कभी-कभी बस से ऑफिस जाती हूँ।

Because जाती हूँ already shows first person singular and female speaker, the meaning can still be understood.

However, including मैं is also completely correct, and it can add clarity or emphasis.

Only the habitual verb form changes:

• female speaker: मैं कभी-कभी बस से ऑफिस जाती हूँ।
• male speaker: मैं कभी-कभी बस से ऑफिस जाता हूँ।

Everything else stays the same. The key change is:

• जाती for feminine singular
• जाता for masculine singular

Yes. You may see:

• कभी-कभी
• कभी कभी

Both are used. The hyphen simply makes the reduplication clearer in writing. In speech, there is no difference in meaning.