Questions & Answers about यह दवा कितनी बार लेनी है?
What does each word in यह दवा कितनी बार लेनी है? mean?
A useful breakdown is:
- यह = this
- दवा = medicine
- कितनी = how many (feminine form)
- बार = times / occasions
- लेनी = to take / to be taken in a feminine form
- है = is
So the sentence structure is literally something like This medicine how many times is to be taken?
What does लेनी है mean as a whole?
लेनी है is a very common Hindi pattern that expresses obligation, requirement, or instruction.
Here, लेनी है means something like:
- has to be taken
- should be taken
- is to be taken
It does not mean is taking.
So this is not a present continuous sentence. It is an instruction-type sentence.
Why is it कितनी and not कितना?
Because कितनी agrees with बार, not with दवा.
In this sentence, कितनी बार means how many times. The noun बार is treated as feminine, so Hindi uses the feminine form .