“Where is the nearest train station?” in Hindi: “सबसे नज़दीकी रेलवे स्टेशन कहाँ है?”

When to use it

Use it in an Indian town when you need to catch a train and want the closest station.

“Where is the nearest train station?” — The sentence in English

In “Where is the nearest train station?” the superlative ‘nearest’ is ‘near’ + ‘-est’, and a superlative always takes ‘the’. ‘train’ is a noun used before ‘station’ to say what kind of station.

Where

adverbquestion word asking about place

is

verbbe · tense: present · person: third · number: singular · form of "to be"; here it says where something is

the

determinerdefinite article

nearest

adjectivesuperlative of "near"

train

nounnoun; it says what kind of station

station

nounnoun

“सबसे नज़दीकी रेलवे स्टेशन कहाँ है?” — The sentence in Hindi

In “सबसे नज़दीकी रेलवे स्टेशन कहाँ है?” the superlative is made with the separate word ‘सबसे’ (most) before the adjective ‘नज़दीकी’ (near). The whole group ‘सबसे नज़दीकी रेलवे स्टेशन’ is the subject; ‘कहाँ’ (where) and ‘है’ (is) follow it.

सबसे

adverbmakes the superlative: सबसे नज़दीकी = 'nearest'

नज़दीकी

adjectiveadjective 'near, close'

रेलवे

nounnoun from English 'railway', describing स्टेशन

स्टेशन

nounmasculine noun 'station'

कहाँ

adverbquestion adverb 'where', before the verb

है

auxiliary verbहोना · tense: present · number: singular · at the end of the sentence

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

English changes the adjective (‘nearest’), Hindi adds ‘सबसे’ before it. Indians usually say ‘रेलवे स्टेशन’ rather than a word-for-word ‘train station’; both words come from English.

Example conversation