“I want to learn to cook traditional dishes.” in Bangla

When to use it

Use it when you tell a host or cooking teacher that you would like to learn to cook traditional Bengali food.

The sentence in English: “I want to learn to cook traditional dishes.”

In “I want to learn to cook traditional dishes.” the verbs form a chain from left to right: ‘want’, ‘to learn’, ‘to cook’, each introduced by ‘to’. ‘dishes’ is plural with ‘traditional’ before it.

I

pronounpersonal pronoun, always written with a capital letter

want

verbwant · tense: present · person: first · number: singular · followed by "to" + verb

to

particleinfinitive marker before the verb

learn

verblearn · form: base form (infinitive without "to") · after "to"

to

particleinfinitive marker before the verb

cook

verbcook · form: base form (infinitive without "to") · after "to"

traditional

adjectiveadjective

dishes

nounplural noun; prepared food

The sentence in Bangla: “আমি ঐতিহ্যবাহী খাবার রান্না করা শিখতে চাই।”

In “আমি ঐতিহ্যবাহী খাবার রান্না করা শিখতে চাই।” the chain runs the other way: ‘রান্না করা’ (cooking), then ‘শিখতে’ (to learn), then ‘চাই’ (I want) at the end. Before চাওয়া (to want), a verb takes the ‘-তে’ form: ‘শিখতে চাই’.

আমি

pronounpronoun 'I'

ঐতিহ্যবাহী

adjectiveadjective 'traditional'

খাবার

nounnoun 'food, dishes'

রান্না

nounnoun 'cooking'; রান্না করা = 'to cook'

করা

verbকরা · form: verbal noun · রান্না করা 'cooking', the object of শেখা

শিখতে

verbশেখা · form: infinitive (-তে) · 'to learn'; the -তে form before চাওয়া

চাই

verbচাওয়া · tense: simple present · person: 1st · 'want', at the end

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

The order is reversed: English begins with ‘want’, Bengali ends with ‘চাই’. English marks infinitives with ‘to’; Bengali uses the ending ‘-তে’ or a verbal noun like ‘করা’.

Example conversation