यह सवाल बहुत आम है।

to be

Breakdown of यह सवाल बहुत आम है।

• यह: this
• सवाल: question
• बहुत: very

Questions & Answers about यह सवाल बहुत आम है।

How do you pronounce यह सवाल बहुत आम है?

A natural pronunciation is:

yah sawaal bahut aam hai

A few notes:

• यह is often pronounced yah in careful speech, though in everyday speech many speakers say something closer to yeh.
• सवाल = sawaal
• बहुत is commonly pronounced bahut or sometimes closer to bohot in casual speech.
• आम = aam with a long aa
• है = hai

So the whole sentence sounds roughly like: yah sawaal bahut aam hai.

What does यह mean here, and why is it used?

यह means this.

So यह सवाल means this question.

Hindi commonly uses:

• यह = this
• वह = that

You may also see or hear:

• ये
• वो

In modern spoken Hindi, यह/वह are often pronounced more like ये/वो, but in writing यह is completely standard.

What does सवाल mean? Is it the normal word for question?