यह डाकघर है।

to be

Breakdown of यह डाकघर है।

• यह: this
• डाकघर: post office

Questions & Answers about यह डाकघर है।

How do you pronounce यह डाकघर है?

A natural pronunciation is:

• यह → yah or often yeh in everyday speech
• डाकघर → daak-ghar
• है → hai

So the whole sentence sounds roughly like:

yah daak-ghar hai

A few pronunciation notes:

• ड is a retroflex d, said with the tongue curled back a little.
• आ in डाक is a long aa sound, like father.
• घ in घर is a breathy gh sound, not the hard English g in go.
• ै in है sounds like ai in air, though the exact Hindi vowel is a bit different.

What does यह mean?

यह means this.

It is used for something close to the speaker, just like English this. In many situations, it can also mean he, she, or it when referring to someone or something nearby.

Examples:

• यह घर है। → This is a house.
• यह मेरा दोस्त है। → This is my friend.

Its opposite is वह, which usually means that.