यह सवाल सरल है।

A natural pronunciation is:

yeh sawaal saral hai

A slightly more careful transliteration is:

yah savāl saral hai

A few pronunciation notes:

• यह is often pronounced yeh in everyday speech.
• सवाल sounds like sawaal.
• सरल is saral, with short vowels.
• है sounds like hai, not like English hay, but somewhat close.

Here, यह means this.

So यह सवाल = this question.

In other contexts, यह can also mean this person, this thing, or sometimes he/she/it depending on context, but in this sentence it clearly means this.

Hindi often puts है at the end of the sentence.

So instead of English This question is simple, Hindi says:

This question simple is

That is completely normal in Hindi.
The structure here is:

• यह सवाल = subject
• सरल = predicate adjective
• है = is

है means is.

It is the singular present-tense form of the verb to be.

So in this sentence, है links यह सवाल and सरल, just like is in English:

This question is simple.

Hindi does not normally use articles like English a, an, and the.

So यह सवाल can naturally mean:

• this question

and you do not need a separate word for the.

That is one of the basic differences between Hindi and English grammar.

सरल is an adjective. It means simple.

In this sentence, it describes सवाल:

• सवाल = question
• सरल = simple

So सरल है means is simple.

In this case, सरल stays the same.

That is because सरल is one of the many Hindi adjectives that do not change form for masculine/feminine or singular/plural.

For example:

• यह सवाल सरल है। = This question is simple.
• यह किताब सरल है। = This book is simple.
• ये सवाल सरल हैं। = These questions are simple.

Notice that सरल stays सरल each time.

सवाल is generally masculine.

That matters in some Hindi patterns, although in this sentence you do not see much visible change because:

• सरल does not change here
• है is singular regardless of masculine or feminine

You can see number more clearly than gender in a sentence like:

• यह सवाल सरल है। = This question is simple.
• ये सवाल सरल हैं। = These questions are simple.

In standard Hindi:

• यह = this (singular)
• ये = these (plural)

So यह सवाल is the standard singular form: this question.

However, in everyday spoken Hindi, many speakers use ये even for singular informal speech. So you may hear both, but यह सवाल सरल है। is the standard written form.

Yes, but the structure is slightly different.

• यह सवाल सरल है। = This question is simple.
• यह सरल सवाल है। = This is a simple question.

In the first sentence, simple is the main statement about the question.
In the second, simple directly describes question inside the noun phrase.

So both are correct, but they are not exactly the same in emphasis.

Both can mean question.

• सवाल is very common in everyday speech.
• प्रश्न is a bit more formal or bookish.

So यह सवाल सरल है। sounds natural and common in regular conversation.
A more formal version could be:

यह प्रश्न सरल है।

The symbol । is called the danda.

It works like a period/full stop in Hindi writing.

So यह सवाल सरल है। ends with the Hindi equivalent of a full stop.

सरल often means simple, straightforward, or not complicated.

Depending on context, it can sometimes overlap with easy, but Hindi also has आसान, which is a very common word for easy.

So:

• सरल = simple, straightforward
• आसान = easy

In many contexts, both can work, but सरल often suggests simplicity in structure or form, not just difficulty level.