When to use it
Use it to suggest an outing to a friend for the next day.
The sentence in English (“Shall we go to the park tomorrow?”)
In “Shall we go to the park tomorrow?” ‘Shall’ comes before ‘we’ and makes a suggestion. ‘go to the park’ needs ‘to’ for direction, and ‘tomorrow’ goes last.
- Shall
- auxiliary verbshall · tense: present · modal verb; "Shall we…?" makes a suggestion
- we
- pronounpersonal pronoun, first person plural
- go
- verbgo · form: base form (infinitive without "to") · main verb after "shall"
- to
- prepositionpreposition of direction
- the
- determinerdefinite article
- park
- nounnoun
- tomorrow
- adverbadverb of time
The sentence in Bangla (“আমরা কি কাল পার্কে যাব?”)
In “আমরা কি কাল পার্কে যাব?” the verb ‘যাব’ (will go) is future, and the particle ‘কি’ turns the plan into a suggestion. The destination ‘পার্কে’ is ‘পার্ক’ plus the case ending ‘-এ’, so no separate word for ‘to’ is needed.
- আমরা
- pronoun1st person plural pronoun 'we'
- কি
- particlequestion particle; turns the plan into a suggestion
- কাল
- adverbtime word: here 'tomorrow'; কাল means both 'yesterday' and 'tomorrow'
- পার্কে
- noun'park' + case ending -এ for the destination
- যাব
- verbযাওয়া · tense: future · person: 1st · যাব 'shall go'; with কি it makes a suggestion
What changes from one language to the other (English × Bangla)
Bengali ‘কাল’ means both ‘yesterday’ and ‘tomorrow’; the future verb shows it is tomorrow. English uses a preposition, ‘to’; Bengali uses an ending, ‘-এ’.
Example conversation
— আমরা কি কাল পার্কে যাব?
— Shall we go to the park tomorrow?
— হ্যাঁ, সকালে যাই।
— Sure, let's go in the morning.