“Where is the nearest train station?” in Filipino

When to use it

Use it when you need to catch a train and want the closest station.

The sentence in English: “Where is the nearest train station?”

In “Where is the nearest train station?” ‘nearest’ is ‘near’ + ‘-est’, always with ‘the’, and ‘train’ comes before ‘station’.

Where

adverbquestion word asking about place

is

verbbe · tense: present · person: third · number: singular · form of "to be"; here it says where something is

the

determinerdefinite article

nearest

adjectivesuperlative of "near"

train

nounnoun; it says what kind of station

station

nounnoun

The sentence in Filipino: “Nasaan ang pinakamalapit na istasyon ng tren?”

In “Nasaan ang pinakamalapit na istasyon ng tren?” the prefix ‘pinaka-’ makes the superlative ‘pinakamalapit’ (nearest). The linker ‘na’ joins it to ‘istasyon’ (station), and ‘ng tren’ (of train) says which kind.

Nasaan

adverbquestion word 'where'

ang

prepositiontopic marker ang

pinakamalapit

adjectivepinaka- + malapit: superlative 'nearest'

na

particlelinker na between adjective and noun

istasyon

nounnoun 'station', from Spanish

ng

prepositionng linking: 'station of train'

tren

nounnoun 'train'

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

Filipino uses a prefix, ‘pinaka-’; English a suffix, ‘-est’. English ‘train station’ is ‘istasyon ng tren’ in Filipino, in reverse order.

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