क्या तुम्हारा स्कूल मेरे घर से ज़्यादा दूर है?

Breakdown of क्या तुम्हारा स्कूल मेरे घर से ज़्यादा दूर है?

होना
to be
घर
house
मेरा
my
स्कूल
school
क्या
question marker
से
than
दूर
far
तुम्हारा
your
ज़्यादा
more

Questions & Answers about क्या तुम्हारा स्कूल मेरे घर से ज़्यादा दूर है?

Why does the sentence start with क्या?

At the beginning of a sentence, क्या usually marks a yes/no question.

So:

  • तुम्हारा स्कूल मेरे घर से ज़्यादा दूर है। = Your school is farther from my house.
  • क्या तुम्हारा स्कूल मेरे घर से ज़्यादा दूर है? = Is your school farther from my house?

In everyday speech, Hindi speakers can sometimes ask a yes/no question just with intonation, but starting with क्या is a very common and clear way to do it.

Why is it तुम्हारा and not तुम्हारी or तुम्हारे?

Because तुम्हारा agrees with स्कूल.

In Hindi, possessive words like मेरा / मेरी / मेरे and तुम्हारा / तुम्हारी / तुम्हारे change according to the gender and number of the noun they describe.

Here:

  • स्कूल is treated as masculine singular
  • so the correct form is तुम्हारा स्कूल

Compare:

  • तुम्हारा स्कूल = your school
  • तुम्हारी किताब = your book
  • तुम्हारे दोस्त = your friends
Why is it मेरे घर से and not मेरा घर से?

This is because Hindi uses an oblique form before postpositions like से, में, पर, को, etc.

With मेरा, the forms are:

  • मेरा = my
  • मेरी = my
  • मेरे = oblique/plural form, and also masculine plural

In मेरे घर से, the postposition is से, so मेरे is used.

Compare:

  • मेरा घर = my house
  • मेरे घर में = in my house
  • मेरे घर से = from my house

This is a very important Hindi pattern.

What exactly does से mean here?

Here से means from.

So:

  • मेरे घर से दूर = far from my house

In this sentence, से is not mainly doing the job of English than. It is marking the point from which distance is measured.

So the structure is:

  • X Y से दूर है = X is far from Y

Examples:

  • स्कूल घर से दूर है। = The school is far from the house.
  • दिल्ली यहाँ से दूर है। = Delhi is far from here.
How does ज़्यादा दूर mean farther?

Literally, ज़्यादा दूर means more far or more distant, but in natural English we translate it as farther or further away.

Hindi often forms comparatives with:

  • ज़्यादा = more
  • adjective/adverb after it

So:

  • दूर = far
  • ज़्यादा दूर = farther / more distant

Examples:

  • यह रास्ता लंबा है। = This road is long.
  • यह रास्ता ज़्यादा लंबा है। = This road is longer.

So मेरे घर से ज़्यादा दूर means farther from my house.

Why is है at the end?

है is the present-tense form of to be for singular subjects.

Hindi often puts the verb at the end of the sentence, so:

  • तुम्हारा स्कूल मेरे घर से ज़्यादा दूर है। literally follows a pattern like: your school from my house farther is

That final है completes the statement/question.

If the subject were plural, you would usually get हैं instead:

  • तुम्हारे दोस्त यहाँ हैं। = Your friends are here.
Is the word order different from English?

Yes. Hindi usually prefers Subject + other information + verb, with the verb often at the end.

This sentence is:

  • क्या = question marker
  • तुम्हारा स्कूल = your school
  • मेरे घर से = from my house
  • ज़्यादा दूर = farther / more far
  • है = is

So the Hindi order is roughly:

Is your school from my house farther?

That sounds odd in English, but it is normal in Hindi.

Could I use आपका instead of तुम्हारा?

Yes, if you want to be more polite or formal.

  • तुम्हारा = your (informal/familiar)
  • आपका = your (polite/formal)

So you could say:

क्या आपका स्कूल मेरे घर से ज़्यादा दूर है?

That would be more appropriate when speaking respectfully to an older person, a stranger, a teacher, etc.

Can this sentence be said without क्या?

Yes, in conversation it sometimes can.

For example:

तुम्हारा स्कूल मेरे घर से ज़्यादा दूर है?

With questioning intonation, this can also work as a yes/no question in speech.

But for learners, using initial क्या is safer and clearer, especially in neutral standard Hindi.

How should I pronounce क्या and ज़्यादा?

A rough pronunciation guide:

  • क्याkyaa
  • तुम्हाराtum-haa-raa
  • स्कूलskuul
  • मेरेmay-ray
  • घरghar
  • सेsay
  • ज़्यादाzyaa-daa
  • दूरdoor
  • है ≈ often like hai or a shorter heh depending on accent/speed

A useful point:

  • क्या and ज़्यादा both have a yaa sound in them.
  • स्कूल is a borrowed word and sounds quite close to English school.
What is the basic grammar pattern I should learn from this sentence?

A very useful pattern is:

क्या + [possessive + noun] + [place/person + से] + ज़्यादा + adjective + है?

In this sentence:

  • क्या
  • तुम्हारा स्कूल
  • मेरे घर से
  • ज़्यादा दूर
  • है?

This helps you build similar questions, for example:

  • क्या तुम्हारा ऑफिस यहाँ से ज़्यादा दूर है? = Is your office farther from here?
  • क्या यह रास्ता उस रास्ते से ज़्यादा लंबा है? = Is this road longer than that one?

So this sentence is a great model for forming yes/no questions with distance and comparison.

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