“Could you bring the bill, please?” in Marathi: “कृपया बिल आणाल का?”

When to use it

Use it at the end of a meal to ask the waiter politely for the bill.

“Could you bring the bill, please?” — The sentence in English

In “Could you bring the bill, please?” ‘Could’ softens the request and ‘please’ closes it.

Could

auxiliary verbcan · form: conditional · modal verb; "Could you…?" is a polite request

you

pronounpersonal pronoun

bring

verbbring · form: base form (infinitive without "to") · after a modal verb the main verb has no "to"

the

determinerdefinite article

bill

nounnoun; the check at a restaurant

please

adverbpoliteness word

“कृपया बिल आणाल का?” — The sentence in Marathi

In “कृपया बिल आणाल का?” there is no separate word for ‘you’: the respectful verb ‘आणाल’ (you will bring) already includes it. The final ‘का’ turns it into a question and softens it.

कृपया

adverb'please', opening a polite request

बिल

noun'bill', from English

आणाल

verbāṇṇe · tense: future · person: 2nd, respectful · 'you will bring'; respectful form for a request

का

particle'kā' at the end: yes/no question

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

English writes ‘you’ separately; Marathi builds it into the verb form.

Example conversation