पिता सुबह अख़बार पढ़ते हैं, और माँ दोपहर में अख़बार पढ़ती है।

Hindi usually follows Subject–Object–Verb word order, unlike English, which usually uses Subject–Verb–Object.

So:

• पिता = father
• सुबह = in the morning
• अख़बार = newspaper
• पढ़ते हैं = read / reads

Literally, the first clause is closer to Father morning newspaper reads.

That said, Hindi word order is somewhat flexible for emphasis, but the verb normally stays near the end.

Because Hindi often uses honorific agreement for respected people, especially family elders.

So even though पिता refers to one person, the verb is treated like plural/respectful:

• पढ़ते हैं = masculine plural or honorific form

This is similar to using a respectful grammatical form rather than a literal plural. In English we do not do this with verbs, so it often feels strange at first.

In this sentence, माँ is being treated as feminine singular non-honorific grammatically:

• पढ़ती है = feminine singular habitual

But Hindi speakers very often do use honorific agreement for माँ too, especially in respectful or natural family speech:

• माँ दोपहर में अख़बार पढ़ती हैं।

So both are possible, depending on style, family habit, and level of respect being expressed in grammar.

These are forms of the auxiliary verb to be, used here with the habitual form of the main verb.

• है = is / singular
• हैं = are / plural or honorific

In this sentence:

• पढ़ते हैं matches पिता as honorific
• पढ़ती है matches माँ as singular non-honorific

So the auxiliary helps show number and respect level.

These are habitual forms of पढ़ना meaning to read. They agree with the subject in gender/number/respect.

Basic pattern:

• पढ़ता है = masculine singular
• पढ़ती है = feminine singular
• पढ़ते हैं = masculine plural or honorific

So:

• पिता ... पढ़ते हैं because the subject is treated as masculine honorific
• माँ ... पढ़ती है because the subject is feminine singular here

This is one of the most important agreement patterns in Hindi.

Because time expressions in Hindi do not all behave exactly the same way.

• सुबह is very commonly used by itself as an adverb: in the morning
• दोपहर में is the more common way to say in the afternoon

So:

• सुबह = in the morning
• दोपहर में = in the afternoon

You should learn many time expressions as chunks, because Hindi does not always use the same postposition in every case.

Because this sentence is in the present habitual, and Hindi normally does not use ने with subjects in this kind of clause.

Hindi often uses ने with perfective transitive verbs, for example:

• पिता ने अख़बार पढ़ा।
  Father read the newspaper.

But in the present habitual:

• पिता अख़बार पढ़ते हैं।

So this sentence has no ने because it is describing a habitual action, not a completed perfective one.

Because direct objects in Hindi do not always take को.

In this sentence, अख़बार is an inanimate direct object, and it is completely normal to leave it unmarked:

• अख़बार पढ़ते हैं

Using को here would usually sound unnecessary or marked. Hindi commonly uses को more with:

• animate objects
• highly specific objects in certain contexts
• indirect objects

So अख़बार without को is the natural choice here.

Hindi does not have articles like English a/an/the.

So अख़बार can mean:

• a newspaper
• the newspaper

The exact meaning depends on context. Learners often want a separate word for the, but Hindi usually just does not need one.

Yes, very often it could be.

You could say:

• पिता सुबह अख़बार पढ़ते हैं, और माँ दोपहर में पढ़ती है।

That would still be understood as Mother reads the newspaper in the afternoon.

Hindi often omits repeated information when it is clear from context. Repeating अख़बार is also perfectly correct; it just makes the sentence more explicit.

पिता is correct and common, but it is somewhat more formal/standard than what many people say in everyday family speech.

In real life, people may often use words like:

• पापा
• पिताजी
• बाबूजी
  and other regional/family terms

So the sentence sounds natural as standard Hindi, but not necessarily like casual family conversation.

There are two useful script details here:

1. ख़ in अख़बार
   The dot under ख is called a nukta. It gives a sound borrowed from Persian/Urdu, often pronounced like a rough kh/x sound.
   Many speakers pronounce ख़ almost the same as plain ख, so do not worry if you cannot produce a strong distinction yet.

2. ाँ in माँ
   This mark shows nasalization of the vowel.
   So माँ is pronounced roughly like maa with a nasal sound.

These marks are worth noticing, but beginners do not need perfect pronunciation immediately to be understood.