Word
फ्लैट में दस खिड़कियाँ हैं।
Meaning
The flat has ten windows.
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Questions & Answers about फ्लैट में दस खिड़कियाँ हैं।
Why is the order फ्लैट में दस खिड़कियाँ हैं instead of something more like English word order?
Hindi often puts the location first, then the thing that exists there, and then the verb.
So this sentence is literally close to:
In the flat ten windows are.
That is a very normal Hindi way to express there is/there are in a place.
Why is में after फ्लैट?
Because में is a postposition, not a preposition.
In English, we say in the flat.
In Hindi, the equivalent word comes after the noun:
- फ्लैट में = in the flat
- कमरे में = in the room
- घर में = in the house
So Hindi uses noun + postposition, not preposition + noun.
Why doesn’t फ्लैट change form before में?
Nouns before postpositions normally go into the oblique case in Hindi. But some nouns do not visibly change in the singular.
फ्लैट is a borrowed word ending in a consonant, so its singular direct and singular oblique forms look the same:
- फ्लैट
- फ्लैट में
Compare that with a noun that does change: