“Shall we go to the park tomorrow?” in Hindi

When to use it

Use it to suggest an outing to a friend for the next day.

The sentence in English (“Shall we go to the park tomorrow?”)

In “Shall we go to the park tomorrow?” the auxiliary ‘Shall’ comes before ‘we’ and turns the sentence into a suggestion. ‘go to the park’ needs the preposition ‘to’ for direction, and ‘tomorrow’ goes last.

Shall

auxiliary verbshall · tense: present · modal verb; "Shall we…?" makes a suggestion

we

pronounpersonal pronoun, first person plural

go

verbgo · form: base form (infinitive without "to") · main verb after "shall"

to

prepositionpreposition of direction

the

determinerdefinite article

park

nounnoun

tomorrow

adverbadverb of time

The sentence in Hindi (“क्या हम कल पार्क चलें?”)

In “क्या हम कल पार्क चलें?” the verb ‘चलें’ is a subjunctive form of चलना (to go): with ‘हम’ (we) it means ‘shall we go?’. The destination ‘पार्क’ needs no postposition, and ‘कल’ comes before the place.

क्या

particlequestion particle; here it turns a suggestion into a question

हम

pronoun1st person plural pronoun 'we'

कल

adverbtime word: here 'tomorrow'; कल means both 'yesterday' and 'tomorrow'

पार्क

nounmasculine noun 'park'; used here without a postposition as the destination

चलें

verbचलना · mood: subjunctive · person: 1st · number: plural · subjunctive चलें 'shall we go', used to make a suggestion

What changes from one language to the other (English × Hindi)

Hindi ‘कल’ means both ‘yesterday’ and ‘tomorrow’; the subjunctive verb shows it is tomorrow here. English needs ‘to’ before the destination, Hindi does not, and Hindi puts the time before the place.

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