When to use it
Use it when driving in a city to find a covered car park that does not cost much.
The sentence in English (“I'm looking for cheap underground parking.”)
"I'm looking for cheap underground parking" puts two adjectives, "cheap" and "underground", before the noun "parking". In American English people also say "parking garage".
- I'm
- contractionbe · tense: present · person: first · number: singular · contraction of "I am"
- looking
- verblook · form: -ing form · "am looking for" is an action happening now
- for
- prepositionpreposition; "look for" means "search"
- cheap
- adjectiveadjective
- underground
- adjectiveadjective; below street level
- parking
- nounnoun
The sentence in French (“Je cherche un parking souterrain pas cher.”)
"Je cherche un parking souterrain pas cher" puts the adjectives after the noun. "Pas cher" literally means "not expensive" and is the usual way to say cheap in French. "Un parking" is a car park.
- Je
- pronounpersonal pronoun: "I"
- cherche
- verbchercher · tense: present · mood: indicative · person: first · number: singular · "I look for"; French uses the simple present where English uses "I'm looking for"
- un
- determinerindefinite article, masculine: "a"
- parking
- nounmasculine noun: "car park"
- souterrain
- adjectiveadjective: "underground"
- pas
- adverbadverb; "pas cher" means "not expensive"
- cher
- adjectiveadjective: "expensive"
What changes from one language to the other (English × French)
English places adjectives before the noun; French places these after it. French often says "pas cher" (not expensive) instead of a single word for cheap.
Example conversation
— Je cherche un parking souterrain pas cher.
— I'm looking for cheap underground parking.
— Il y en a un sous la place principale.
— There's one under the main square.