“How do I cancel a reservation?” in Hindi: “मैं आरक्षण कैसे रद्द करूँ?”

When to use it

Use it on the phone or at a counter in India when you need to cancel a hotel, train or restaurant booking.

“How do I cancel a reservation?” — The sentence in English

In “How do I cancel a reservation?” ‘How’ comes first and the helper ‘do’ is needed for the question. ‘cancel’ stays in its base form, and ‘a reservation’ uses the indefinite article.

How

adverbquestion word asking about the way or manner

do

auxiliary verbdo · tense: present · auxiliary that makes the question

I

pronounpersonal pronoun, always written with a capital letter

cancel

verbcancel · form: base form (infinitive without "to") · main verb after "do I"

a

determinerindefinite article

reservation

nounnoun; in British English also "booking"

“मैं आरक्षण कैसे रद्द करूँ?” — The sentence in Hindi

In “मैं आरक्षण कैसे रद्द करूँ?” the verb ‘रद्द करूँ’ is a subjunctive of रद्द करना (to cancel), close to ‘how should I cancel?’. ‘रद्द करना’ is a compound: ‘रद्द’ (cancelled) + करना (to do). The object ‘आरक्षण’ (reservation) comes before the verb and ‘कैसे’ (how) sits right before it.

मैं

pronoun1st person singular pronoun 'I'

आरक्षण

nounmasculine noun 'reservation'

कैसे

adverbquestion adverb 'how'

रद्द

adjective'cancelled'; with करना it forms 'to cancel'

करूँ

verbकरना · mood: subjunctive · person: 1st · number: singular · subjunctive करूँ, used to ask 'how should I…'

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

English needs ‘do’ to ask; Hindi uses only ‘कैसे’ and the subjunctive ‘करूँ’. One English verb, ‘cancel’, is two Hindi words, ‘रद्द करना’, and Hindi has no article for ‘a’.

Example conversation