When to use it
Use it at an airport, bank or exchange counter when you need rupees.
“Can I exchange money here?” · The sentence in English
In “Can I exchange money here?” ‘Can’ moves before ‘I’, and ‘money’ is uncountable.
- Can
- auxiliary verbcan · tense: present · modal verb of ability or permission; it opens the question
- I
- pronounpersonal pronoun, always written with a capital letter
- exchange
- verbexchange · form: base form (infinitive without "to") · main verb after "can"
- money
- noununcountable noun
- here
- adverbadverb of place
“मला इथे पैसे बदलून मिळतील का?” · The sentence in Marathi
In “मला इथे पैसे बदलून मिळतील का?” the sentence starts with ‘मला’ (to me), not ‘मी’: will the money, changed, come to me here? ‘पैसे’ (money) is plural, so the verb is ‘मिळतील’.
- मला
- pronoun'to me': the money comes to me
- इथे
- adverb'here'
- पैसे
- noun'money' (plural form)
- बदलून
- verbbadalṇe · form: conjunctive (-ūn) · 'having changed'; with miḷtīl, get exchanged
- मिळतील
- verbmiḷṇe · tense: future · number: plural · 'will be got', plural with paise
- का
- particlequestion particle
What changes from one language to the other · English × Marathi
English makes ‘I’ the subject; Marathi makes the money the subject and the speaker the receiver.
Example conversation
— मला इथे पैसे बदलून मिळतील का?
— Can I exchange money here?
— हो, तुमच्याकडे कोणतं चलन आहे?
— Yes, which currency do you have?