Questions & Answers about यह सवाल सरल है।
How do you pronounce 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.
What does यह mean here?
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.
Why is the word order different from English?
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