“How can I get a refund?” in Bangla: “আমি কীভাবে টাকা ফেরত পেতে পারি?”

When to use it

Use it at a shop counter or booking office when you want your money back.

“How can I get a refund?” — The sentence in English

In “How can I get a refund?” ‘refund’ is a single noun, ‘I’ is the subject, and ‘can’ moves before it.

How

adverbquestion word asking about the way or manner

can

auxiliary verbcan · tense: present · modal verb of ability or permission

I

pronounpersonal pronoun, always written with a capital letter

get

verbget · form: base form (infinitive without "to") · here it means "obtain"

a

determinerindefinite article

refund

nounnoun; money given back

“আমি কীভাবে টাকা ফেরত পেতে পারি?” — The sentence in Bangla

In “আমি কীভাবে টাকা ফেরত পেতে পারি?” ‘টাকা ফেরত পাওয়া’ (to get money back) is how Bengali says ‘get a refund’. Before পারা (can) the verb takes the ‘-তে’ form: ‘পেতে পারি’.

আমি

pronounpronoun 'I'

কীভাবে

adverbquestion adverb 'how'

টাকা

nounnoun 'money'

ফেরত

adjective'returned'; টাকা ফেরত = refund

পেতে

verbপাওয়া · form: infinitive (-তে) · ফেরত পেতে 'to get back'

পারি

verbপারা · tense: simple present · person: 1st · পারা 'can'

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

One English noun, ‘refund’, is two Bengali words, ‘টাকা ফেরত’. English opens with ‘How can I’, Bengali ends with ‘পেতে পারি’.

Example conversation