When to use it
Use it when you drive into an Indian city and want an inexpensive underground car park.
The sentence in English — “I'm looking for cheap underground parking.”
In “I'm looking for cheap underground parking.” two adjectives come before the noun, ‘cheap’ then ‘underground’. ‘parking’ is uncountable, so there is no ‘a’.
- 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 Hindi — “मुझे सस्ती भूमिगत पार्किंग चाहिए।”
In “मुझे सस्ती भूमिगत पार्किंग चाहिए।” both adjectives come before ‘पार्किंग’ (parking), as in English. ‘सस्ती’ (cheap) is feminine because ‘पार्किंग’ is feminine, while ‘भूमिगत’ (underground) is a Sanskrit-based word that does not change. ‘मुझे … चाहिए’ means ‘I need’.
- मुझे
- pronounमैं + को, with चाहिए
- सस्ती
- adjectiveadjective 'cheap', feminine for पार्किंग
- भूमिगत
- adjectiveadjective 'underground' (literally 'gone under the ground')
- पार्किंग
- nounfeminine noun 'parking'
- चाहिए
- verbचाहना · form: चाहिए (need) · मुझे … चाहिए = 'I need'
English × Hindi — What changes from one language to the other
The adjective order is the same in both languages. The difference is agreement: Hindi ‘सस्ता/सस्ती’ changes with the noun's gender, English ‘cheap’ never changes.
Example conversation
— मुझे सस्ती भूमिगत पार्किंग चाहिए।
— I'm looking for cheap underground parking.
— मॉल के नीचे एक है, और पहला घंटा मुफ़्त है।
— There's one under the mall, and the first hour is free.