“Where can I rent a bicycle in the city?” in Hindi

When to use it

Use it in an Indian city when you want to rent a bicycle to get around.

The sentence in English: “Where can I rent a bicycle in the city?”

In “Where can I rent a bicycle in the city?” one verb, ‘rent’, does all the work, and the subject is ‘I’. ‘in the city’ goes 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

rent

verbrent · form: base form (infinitive without "to") · main verb after "can"

a

determinerindefinite article

bicycle

nounnoun; often shortened to "bike"

in

prepositionpreposition

the

determinerdefinite article

city

nounnoun

The sentence in Hindi: “शहर में साइकिल कहाँ किराए पर मिल सकती है?”

In “शहर में साइकिल कहाँ किराए पर मिल सकती है?” the expression ‘किराए पर मिलना’ means ‘to be available for rent’. Its subject is ‘साइकिल’ (bicycle, feminine), so the verb ‘मिल सकती है’ is feminine. The speaker is not mentioned: the sentence asks where a bicycle can be had.

शहर

nounmasculine noun 'city'

में

prepositionpostposition 'in'

साइकिल

nounfeminine noun 'bicycle'; it makes सकती feminine

कहाँ

adverbquestion adverb 'where'

किराए

nounoblique of किराया 'rent'; किराए पर = 'on rent'

पर

prepositionpostposition पर, part of किराए पर

मिल

verbमिलना · form: stem · मिलना 'to be available'; its subject is साइकिल

सकती

auxiliary verbसकना · gender: feminine · number: singular · feminine, agreeing with साइकिल

है

auxiliary verbहोना · tense: present · present

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

One English verb, ‘rent’, becomes a phrase in Hindi, ‘किराए पर मिलना’. English asks about ‘I’; Hindi makes the bicycle the subject, which is why the verb is feminine.

Example conversation