When to use it
Use it when you arrive somewhere and want to know the usual way to get a taxi.
The sentence in English: “How do you get a taxi here?”
In “How do you get a taxi here?” the ‘you’ is generic, ‘get a taxi’ means find or catch one, and the question needs ‘do’.
- How
- adverbquestion word asking about the way or manner
- do
- auxiliary verbdo · tense: present · auxiliary that makes the question
- you
- pronounpersonal pronoun used for people in general
- get
- verbget · form: base form (infinitive without "to") · here it means "take" or "find"
- a
- determinerindefinite article
- taxi
- nounnoun
- here
- adverbadverb of place
The sentence in Bangla: “এখানে ট্যাক্সি কীভাবে পাওয়া যায়?”
In “এখানে ট্যাক্সি কীভাবে পাওয়া যায়?” the impersonal ‘পাওয়া যায়’ (can be got) asks about the usual way, with no subject. ‘এখানে’ (here) opens the sentence.
- এখানে
- adverbplace adverb 'here'
- ট্যাক্সি
- nounnoun 'taxi'
- কীভাবে
- adverbquestion adverb 'how'
- পাওয়া
- verbপাওয়া · form: verbal noun · পাওয়া যায় 'one can get', in general
- যায়
- auxiliary verbযাওয়া · tense: present · mood: possibility · possibility যায়
What changes from one language to the other: English × Bangla
English makes a person the subject (‘you get’); Bengali uses an impersonal verb. English ‘here’ is last, Bengali ‘এখানে’ first.
Example conversation
— এখানে ট্যাক্সি কীভাবে পাওয়া যায়?
— How do you get a taxi here?
— বেশিরভাগ মানুষ অ্যাপে বুক করে।
— Most people book one with an app.