“Where can I rent a bicycle in the city?” in Bangla

When to use it

Use it in a city when you want to rent a bicycle to get around.

The sentence in English: “Where can I rent a bicycle in the city?”

In “Where can I rent a bicycle in the city?” one verb, ‘rent’, does all the work, with ‘I’ as the subject and ‘in the city’ at the end.

Where

adverbquestion word asking about place

can

auxiliary verbcan · tense: present · modal verb of ability or permission

I

pronounpersonal pronoun, always written with a capital letter

rent

verbrent · form: base form (infinitive without "to") · main verb after "can"

a

determinerindefinite article

bicycle

nounnoun; often shortened to "bike"

in

prepositionpreposition

the

determinerdefinite article

city

nounnoun

The sentence in Bangla: “শহরে কোথায় সাইকেল ভাড়া পাওয়া যায়?”

In “শহরে কোথায় সাইকেল ভাড়া পাওয়া যায়?” the phrase ‘ভাড়া পাওয়া যায়’ means ‘can be had on hire’; no person is named, so it asks where hire is available. The ending ‘-এ’ of ‘শহরে’ does the work of ‘in’.

শহরে

noun'city' + -এ: 'in the city'

কোথায়

adverbquestion adverb 'where'

সাইকেল

nounnoun 'bicycle'

ভাড়া

nounnoun 'hire, rent'

পাওয়া

verbপাওয়া · form: verbal noun · পাওয়া যায় 'can be had'

যায়

auxiliary verbযাওয়া · tense: present · mood: possibility · possibility যায়

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

One English verb, ‘rent’, becomes a phrase in Bengali. English asks about ‘I’, Bengali asks impersonally with ‘পাওয়া যায়’.

Example conversation