“He works at a hospital.” in Hindi: “वह एक अस्पताल में काम करता है।”

When to use it

Use it to say where a man works; for a woman, say ‘वह एक अस्पताल में काम करती है।’

“He works at a hospital.” — The sentence in English

In “He works at a hospital.” the verb ‘works’ takes ‘-s’ because the subject ‘He’ is third person singular. English uses ‘at’ for a workplace, with ‘a’ before ‘hospital’.

He

pronounpersonal pronoun, third person singular

works

verbwork · tense: present · person: third · number: singular · the -s marks the third person singular

at

prepositionpreposition of place

a

determinerindefinite article

hospital

nounnoun

“वह एक अस्पताल में काम करता है।” — The sentence in Hindi

In “वह एक अस्पताल में काम करता है।” the verb ‘काम करता है’ is the simple present of काम करना (to work, literally ‘to do work’). ‘करता’ is masculine, so ‘वह’ (he/she) is a man here; for a woman it would be ‘करती है’. The postposition ‘में’ (in/at) follows ‘अस्पताल’.

वह

pronoun3rd person singular pronoun; the verb shows the gender

एक

adjectivethe number 'one', here working like English 'a'

अस्पताल

nounmasculine noun 'hospital'

में

prepositionpostposition 'in/at', after the noun

काम

nounmasculine noun 'work'; with करना it means 'to work'

करता

verbकरना · aspect: imperfective (habitual) · gender: masculine · number: singular · masculine करता shows वह is a man; a woman would be करती

है

auxiliary verbहोना · tense: present · number: singular · simple present

English × Hindi: What changes from one language to the other

English shows gender in the pronoun, ‘He’ or ‘She’; Hindi has one pronoun ‘वह’ and shows gender in the verb ending. English ‘at’ comes before the noun, Hindi ‘में’ after it, and ‘work’ is a noun-plus-verb pair, ‘काम करना’.

Example conversation