“How do I cancel a reservation?” in Bangla: “আমি কীভাবে বুকিং বাতিল করব?”

When to use it

Use it on the phone or at a counter when you need to cancel a hotel, train or restaurant booking.

“How do I cancel a reservation?” — The sentence in English

In “How do I cancel a reservation?” ‘How’ comes first and the question needs ‘do’. ‘cancel’ stays in its base form, and ‘a reservation’ uses the indefinite article.

How

adverbquestion word asking about the way or manner

do

auxiliary verbdo · tense: present · auxiliary that makes the question

I

pronounpersonal pronoun, always written with a capital letter

cancel

verbcancel · form: base form (infinitive without "to") · main verb after "do I"

a

determinerindefinite article

reservation

nounnoun; in British English also "booking"

“আমি কীভাবে বুকিং বাতিল করব?” — The sentence in Bangla

In “আমি কীভাবে বুকিং বাতিল করব?” the future ‘করব’ (shall do) asks for the way to do something. ‘বাতিল করা’ is a compound, ‘বাতিল’ (cancelled) + করা (to do). The object ‘বুকিং’ (booking) comes before the verb.

আমি

pronounpronoun 'I'

কীভাবে

adverbquestion adverb 'how'

বুকিং

nounnoun from English 'booking'

বাতিল

adjective'cancelled'; বাতিল করা = 'to cancel'

করব

verbকরা · tense: future · person: 1st · করব 'shall do'; asks for the way to do it

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

English needs ‘do’ to ask; Bengali uses only ‘কীভাবে’ (how) and the future verb. One English verb, ‘cancel’, is the pair ‘বাতিল করা’, and Bengali speakers usually say ‘বুকিং’ rather than a word for ‘reservation’.

Example conversation