In Hindi, sentences are structured differently from English: if I am introducing myself to someone, I would say "my name Emily is," rather than "my name is Emily." Sentences typically run subject-object-verb ("I this eat," "I there live," "That what is?"), and while this way of doing things is not too confusing, adding in adjectives and lengthening sentences can complicate things. For example, in a question, one could ask वह क्या है? (that-what-is) to ask a partner to identify something. However, putting क्या in the beginning of a sentence is the equivalent to turning a declarative sentence into an interrogatory: क्या वह आम है? (that is a mango?) adding क्या makes any sentence into a question--easy enough to remember--but speakers must pay acute attention to word order.
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