“How do you get to the central station from here?” in Bangla

When to use it

Use it to ask a local for directions from where you are to the main station.

The sentence in English: “How do you get to the central station from here?”

In “How do you get to the central station from here?” ‘you’ is generic (anyone), ‘get to’ means ‘reach’, ‘from here’ comes last, 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") · "get to" means "arrive at"

to

prepositionpreposition of direction; "get to" means "arrive at"

the

determinerdefinite article

central

adjectiveadjective

station

nounnoun

from

prepositionpreposition

here

adverbadverb of place

The sentence in Bangla: “এখান থেকে সেন্ট্রাল স্টেশনে কীভাবে যাওয়া যায়?”

In “এখান থেকে সেন্ট্রাল স্টেশনে কীভাবে যাওয়া যায়?” there is no subject: ‘যাওয়া যায়’ (going is possible) is the Bengali way to ask how anyone gets somewhere. ‘এখান থেকে’ (from here) opens the sentence, and the destination ‘স্টেশনে’ takes the ending ‘-এ’.

এখান

adverb'here' before থেকে

থেকে

prepositionpostposition 'from'

সেন্ট্রাল

adjectiveadjective from English 'central'

স্টেশনে

noun'station' + -এ for the destination

কীভাবে

adverbquestion adverb 'how'

যাওয়া

verbযাওয়া · form: verbal noun · যাওয়া যায় 'one can go', in general

যায়

auxiliary verbযাওয়া · tense: present · mood: possibility · possibility যায়, with no subject

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

English uses generic ‘you’; Bengali uses an impersonal ‘যাওয়া যায়’. English ‘from here’ is last, Bengali ‘এখান থেকে’ first, and ‘to’ becomes the ending ‘-এ’.

Example conversation