“Is the supermarket open on Sundays?” in Bangla: “সুপারমার্কেট কি রবিবারে খোলা থাকে?”

When to use it

Use it to check whether a supermarket opens on Sundays before you plan your shopping.

“Is the supermarket open on Sundays?” — The sentence in English

In “Is the supermarket open on Sundays?” ‘Is’ moves before the subject for the question, and ‘open’ is an adjective. The plural ‘Sundays’ means every Sunday; days take a capital letter.

Is

verbbe · tense: present · person: third · number: singular · form of "to be"; it moves to the front to make the question

the

determinerdefinite article

supermarket

nounnoun

open

adjectiveadjective; in English a shop "is open"

on

prepositionpreposition used with days of the week

Sundays

nounplural noun; days of the week take a capital letter

“সুপারমার্কেট কি রবিবারে খোলা থাকে?” — The sentence in Bangla

In “সুপারমার্কেট কি রবিবারে খোলা থাকে?” the phrase ‘খোলা থাকে’ (stays open) uses the simple present of থাকা to describe a regular state. Days take the ending ‘-এ’: ‘রবিবারে’ (on Sunday). The particle ‘কি’ comes after the subject.

সুপারমার্কেট

nounnoun from English 'supermarket'

কি

particlequestion particle

রবিবারে

noun'Sunday' + -এ: 'on Sunday'

খোলা

adjectiveadjective 'open'

থাকে

verbথাকা · tense: simple present · person: 3rd · খোলা থাকে 'stays open' as a rule

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

English asks with ‘Is … open’; Bengali adds থাকা for ‘regularly open’. English ‘on’ comes before the day, Bengali ‘-এ’ is attached to it, and English expresses ‘every Sunday’ with a plural.

Example conversation