“How do you get to the central station from here?” in Hindi

When to use it

Use it to ask a local for directions from where you are to the main station.

The sentence in English: “How do you get to the central station from here?”

In “How do you get to the central station from here?” ‘you’ is generic: it means anyone, not the listener in particular. ‘get to’ means ‘arrive at’, ‘from here’ goes at the end, and the question needs ‘do’.

How

adverbquestion word asking about the way or manner

do

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

you

pronounpersonal pronoun used for people in general

get

verbget · form: base form (infinitive without "to") · "get to" means "arrive at"

to

prepositionpreposition of direction; "get to" means "arrive at"

the

determinerdefinite article

central

adjectiveadjective

station

nounnoun

from

prepositionpreposition

here

adverbadverb of place

The sentence in Hindi: “यहाँ से केंद्रीय स्टेशन कैसे पहुँचते हैं?”

In “यहाँ से केंद्रीय स्टेशन कैसे पहुँचते हैं?” there is no subject at all: the plural ‘पहुँचते हैं’ (arrive) speaks about people in general, the Hindi way of saying generic ‘you’. ‘यहाँ से’ (from here) opens the sentence, and the destination ‘केंद्रीय स्टेशन’ needs no postposition.

यहाँ

adverbplace adverb 'here'

से

prepositionpostposition 'from'

केंद्रीय

adjectiveadjective 'central'

स्टेशन

nounmasculine noun 'station', the destination, without a postposition

कैसे

adverbquestion adverb 'how'

पहुँचते

verbपहुँचना · aspect: imperfective (general) · number: plural · subject: unstated, people in general · plural with no subject: 'how does one get there', like English generic 'you'

हैं

auxiliary verbहोना · tense: present · number: plural · plural for a general statement

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

English uses ‘you’ for a general statement; Hindi drops the subject and uses a plural verb. English ‘from here’ comes last, Hindi ‘यहाँ से’ first; पहुँचना already contains the idea of ‘to’.

Example conversation