“How can I get a refund?” in Hindi: “मुझे पैसे वापस कैसे मिल सकते हैं?”

When to use it

Use it at a shop counter or booking office in India when you want your money back.

“How can I get a refund?” — The sentence in English

In “How can I get a refund?” ‘refund’ is a single noun, the subject is ‘I’, and ‘can’ moves before it for the question.

How

adverbquestion word asking about the way or manner

can

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

I

pronounpersonal pronoun, always written with a capital letter

get

verbget · form: base form (infinitive without "to") · here it means "obtain"

a

determinerindefinite article

refund

nounnoun; money given back

“मुझे पैसे वापस कैसे मिल सकते हैं?” — The sentence in Hindi

In “मुझे पैसे वापस कैसे मिल सकते हैं?” the subject of मिलना (to be received) is ‘पैसे’ (money, plural), and the person is ‘मुझे’ (to me). That is why ‘सकते हैं’ is plural: it agrees with the money. ‘पैसे वापस’ (money back) is how Hindi says ‘refund’.

मुझे

pronounमैं + को; with मिलना, the one who receives

पैसे

nounmasculine plural 'money', the subject of मिलना

वापस

adverb'back'; पैसे वापस मिलना = 'to get money back'

कैसे

adverbquestion adverb 'how'

मिल

verbमिलना · form: stem · मिलना 'to be received'

सकते

auxiliary verbसकना · gender: masculine · number: plural · plural to agree with पैसे, not with 'me'

हैं

auxiliary verbहोना · tense: present · number: plural · plural for पैसे

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

English has the noun ‘refund’; Hindi says ‘पैसे वापस’. English ‘I get’ becomes ‘money comes to me’ in Hindi, with the verb agreeing with ‘पैसे’.

Example conversation