“Did the teacher explain the homework?” in Bangla: “শিক্ষক কি বাড়ির কাজটা বুঝিয়েছেন?”

When to use it

Use it with a child or classmate after school to check whether the teacher explained the homework.

“Did the teacher explain the homework?” — The sentence in English

In “Did the teacher explain the homework?” the past tense is in ‘Did’, so ‘explain’ stays in its base form. Both nouns take ‘the’ because everyone knows which teacher and which homework.

Did

auxiliary verbdo · tense: past · auxiliary that makes a question in the past

the

determinerdefinite article

teacher

nounnoun

explain

verbexplain · form: base form (infinitive without "to") · after "did" the verb stays in its base form

the

determinerdefinite article

homework

noununcountable noun; it has no plural

“শিক্ষক কি বাড়ির কাজটা বুঝিয়েছেন?” — The sentence in Bangla

In “শিক্ষক কি বাড়ির কাজটা বুঝিয়েছেন?” the verb ‘বুঝিয়েছেন’ is the present perfect of বোঝানো (to explain), and its ending ‘-এছেন’ shows respect for the teacher; for a classmate it would be ‘বুঝিয়েছে’. ‘বাড়ির কাজ’ (work of home) is homework, and ‘কাজটা’ adds the classifier ‘টা’ for ‘the’.

শিক্ষক

nounnoun 'teacher', the subject

কি

particlequestion particle after the subject

বাড়ির

noun'home' + genitive -র; বাড়ির কাজ = homework

কাজটা

noun'work' + classifier টা, 'the work'

বুঝিয়েছেন

verbবোঝানো · tense: present perfect · person: 3rd (respectful) · respectful -এছেন ending, used for a teacher

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

Bengali shows respect in the verb ending; English verbs never change for respect. English ‘homework’ is one word, Bengali ‘বাড়ির কাজ’ is two, and ‘টা’ does the work of ‘the’.

Example conversation