मैं कमीज़ बदलती हूँ।

A simple pronunciation guide is:

• मैं = main (with a nasal sound; not exactly like English main)
• कमीज़ = kameez
• बदलती = badalti
• हूँ = hoon (also nasalized)

A rough full pronunciation is: main kameez badalti hoon.

Two sounds English speakers often need to notice:

• मैं and हूँ are nasalized.
• ज़ in कमीज़ is a z sound.

Word by word:

• मैं = I
• कमीज़ = shirt
• बदलती = change / changing in a feminine singular form
• हूँ = am

So the structure is basically:

I + shirt + changing/change + am

That is normal Hindi word order.

Hindi usually follows Subject–Object–Verb order, while English usually uses Subject–Verb–Object.

So:

• English: I change the shirt
• Hindi: I the shirt change

That is why कमीज़ comes before बदलती हूँ.

Because the speaker is female.

In this kind of sentence, the verb agrees with the subject:

• मैं कमीज़ बदलती हूँ = said by a woman
• मैं कमीज़ बदलता हूँ = said by a man

So -ती shows feminine singular, and -ता shows masculine singular.

No. मैं just means I and does not show gender by itself.

You learn the speaker's gender from the verb form:

• मैं ... बदलती हूँ = female speaker
• मैं ... बदलता हूँ = male speaker

This is very common in Hindi.

Hindi often builds the present habitual tense with:

• the main verb in a form like बदलता / बदलती / बदलते
• plus a form of होना (to be), here हूँ

So:

• बदलती carries the main meaning change
• हूँ marks I am

Together they make the full verbal expression.

By default, मैं कमीज़ बदलती हूँ is usually understood as habitual or general:

• I change my shirt
• I change shirts
• I do change my shirt / I am one who changes my shirt depending on context

If you specifically want I am changing my shirt right now, Hindi more naturally uses:

• मैं कमीज़ बदल रही हूँ (female)
• मैं कमीज़ बदल रहा हूँ (male)

So this sentence is usually not the most natural way to say an action happening right now.

Hindi works differently from English here.

1. Hindi has no articles exactly like a/an/the.
2. Possessives such as my are often omitted when the meaning is obvious from context.

So मैं कमीज़ बदलती हूँ can often mean:

• I change my shirt
• I change the shirt
• I change a shirt

Context decides the best English translation.

If you want to make my shirt explicit, you can say:

• मैं अपनी कमीज़ बदलती हूँ।

Because कमीज़ is a direct object, and inanimate direct objects in Hindi often appear without को.

So this is normal:

• मैं कमीज़ बदलती हूँ।

Using को here would usually sound unnecessary or unnatural in most ordinary contexts.

A quick rule of thumb:

• animate or highly specific objects often take को
• ordinary inanimate objects often do not

No. In this sentence, बदलती agrees with मैं (the subject), not with कमीज़ (the object).

That means:

• a woman says: मैं कमीज़ बदलती हूँ
• a man says: मैं कमीज़ बदलता हूँ

Even though कमीज़ is a feminine noun, that is not why the verb is बदलती here.

Yes, but he must change the verb form:

• मैं कमीज़ बदलता हूँ।

So the only difference is:

• बदलती हूँ = female speaker
• बदलता हूँ = male speaker

No. Another very common word is शर्ट.

So you may also hear:

• मैं शर्ट बदलती हूँ।

Both are understandable and common. कमीज़ can feel a bit more traditional or broad depending on context, while शर्ट is the everyday borrowed word many speakers use.

The dot under ज़ is called a nukta. It changes the sound from ज to z.

So:

• ज sounds like j in jam
• ज़ sounds like z in zoo

That is why कमीज़ is pronounced more like kameez, not kameej.

In casual writing, some people may omit the dot, but the standard spelling is कमीज़.