When to use it
Use it to check whether a supermarket in India opens on Sundays before you plan your shopping.
“Is the supermarket open on Sundays?” — The sentence in English
In “Is the supermarket open on Sundays?” the verb ‘Is’ moves before the subject to form the question, and ‘open’ is an adjective. The plural ‘Sundays’ means every Sunday, and days of the week take a capital letter.
- Is
- verbbe · tense: present · person: third · number: singular · form of "to be"; it moves to the front to make the question
- the
- determinerdefinite article
- supermarket
- nounnoun
- open
- adjectiveadjective; in English a shop "is open"
- on
- prepositionpreposition used with days of the week
- Sundays
- nounplural noun; days of the week take a capital letter
“क्या सुपरमार्केट रविवार को खुला रहता है?” — The sentence in Hindi
In “क्या सुपरमार्केट रविवार को खुला रहता है?” the phrase ‘खुला रहता है’ means ‘stays open’: the habitual form of रहना (to stay) says this happens as a rule. ‘खुला’ (open) agrees with the masculine ‘सुपरमार्केट’, and days take the postposition ‘को’: ‘रविवार को’ (on Sunday).
- क्या
- particleyes/no question particle
- सुपरमार्केट
- nounmasculine noun borrowed from English
- रविवार
- nounmasculine noun 'Sunday'
- को
- prepositionpostposition को; with a day it means 'on'
- खुला
- adjectiveadjective 'open', masculine; with रहना it describes a state
- रहता
- verbरहना · aspect: imperfective (habitual) · gender: masculine · number: singular · खुला रहता है = 'stays open' as a rule
- है
- auxiliary verbहोना · tense: present · number: singular · present
English × Hindi: What changes from one language to the other
English asks with ‘Is … open’; Hindi adds रहना to say ‘regularly open’. English uses ‘on’ before the day and a plural for ‘every Sunday’; Hindi uses ‘को’ after the day and the habitual verb.
Example conversation
— क्या सुपरमार्केट रविवार को खुला रहता है?
— Is the supermarket open on Sundays?
— हाँ, पर सिर्फ़ दोपहर दो बजे तक।
— Yes, but only until two in the afternoon.