“Where can I find a good restaurant nearby?” in Hindi

When to use it

Use it when you are new to an area in India and want a recommendation for a good place to eat nearby.

The sentence in English (“Where can I find a good restaurant nearby?”)

In “Where can I find a good restaurant nearby?” the subject is ‘I’ and the verb is ‘find’; ‘can’ moves before ‘I’ for the question. ‘nearby’ comes after the noun, at the end.

Where

adverbquestion word asking about place

can

auxiliary verbcan · tense: present · modal verb of ability or permission

I

pronounpersonal pronoun, always written with a capital letter

find

verbfind · form: base form (infinitive without "to") · main verb after a modal or after "help me"

a

determinerindefinite article

good

adjectiveadjective

restaurant

nounnoun

nearby

adjectiveadjective placed after the noun

The sentence in Hindi (“मुझे पास में अच्छा रेस्तराँ कहाँ मिल सकता है?”)

In “मुझे पास में अच्छा रेस्तराँ कहाँ मिल सकता है?” the verb मिलना means ‘to be found, to come to someone’. Its subject is the thing found, ‘रेस्तराँ’, and the person is ‘मुझे’ (to me). That is why ‘सकता’ is masculine singular, agreeing with the restaurant.

मुझे

pronounमैं + को: with मिलना, the person who gets something is मुझे

पास

adverb'near'; with में it means 'nearby'

में

prepositionpostposition में, part of पास में

अच्छा

adjectiveadjective 'good', masculine

रेस्तराँ

nounmasculine noun 'restaurant'

कहाँ

adverbquestion adverb 'where'

मिल

verbमिलना · form: stem · मिलना 'to be found'; the thing found, रेस्तराँ, is its subject

सकता

auxiliary verbसकना · gender: masculine · number: singular · agrees with रेस्तराँ, not with 'me'

है

auxiliary verbहोना · tense: present · present

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

English says ‘I find’; Hindi says ‘a restaurant is found to me’. This ‘मुझे’ pattern is very common in Hindi (मुझे चाहिए, मुझे पसंद है). English puts ‘nearby’ last; Hindi puts ‘पास में’ early in the sentence.

Example conversation