क्या तुम फ्लैट किराए पर लोगी?

Will you rent the flat?

Breakdown of क्या तुम फ्लैट किराए पर लोगी?

• तुम: you
• क्या: question marker
• फ्लैट: flat; apartment
• किराए पर लेना: to rent

Questions & Answers about क्या तुम फ्लैट किराए पर लोगी?

Why does the sentence start with क्या?

In this sentence, क्या marks a yes/no question.

So:

• क्या तुम फ्लैट किराए पर लोगी? = Will you rent a flat?
• Without क्या, it can still be a question in speech, but you would rely more on intonation:
  • तुम फ्लैट किराए पर लोगी?

A useful rule:

• क्या at the beginning often means Is/Are/Do/Will... ?
• क्या can also mean what, but only in other sentence patterns.

So here, it does not mean what. It is just the yes/no question marker.

What does तुम mean here, and is it polite?

तुम means you, but it is the informal/familiar form.

Hindi has different ways to say you:

• तू = very intimate / very informal / sometimes rude depending on context
• तुम = informal but normal and common with friends, younger people, equals
• आप = polite / respectful

So this sentence is being said to someone the speaker is on familiar terms with.

If you wanted to say it politely, you would use आप instead:

• क्या आप फ्लैट किराए पर लेंगी?
  (to a woman, politely)
• क्या आप फ्लैट किराए पर लेंगे?
  (to a man, politely)