“He works at a hospital.” in Bangla: “সে একটা হাসপাতালে কাজ করে।”

When to use it

Use it to say where someone works; the same Bengali sentence works for a man or a woman.

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

In “He works at a hospital.” ‘works’ takes ‘-s’ because ‘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

“সে একটা হাসপাতালে কাজ করে।” — The sentence in Bangla

In “সে একটা হাসপাতালে কাজ করে।” the pronoun ‘সে’ can mean he or she: Bengali shows no gender in pronouns or verbs. ‘কাজ করে’ (does work) is the simple present for a job; ‘একটা’ is ‘one’ plus the classifier ‘টা’, and the ending ‘-এ’ of ‘হাসপাতালে’ marks the place.

সে

pronounpronoun 'he' or 'she'; Bengali has no gender here

একটা

determiner'one' + classifier টা, like English 'a'

হাসপাতালে

noun'hospital' + -এ for place

কাজ

nounnoun 'work'; কাজ করা = 'to work'

করে

verbকরা · tense: simple present · person: 3rd · কাজ করে 'works', a habit or job

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

English must choose ‘He’ or ‘She’; Bengali uses ‘সে’ for both. English ‘at’ is a separate word before the noun; Bengali ‘-এ’ is an ending.

Example conversation