When to use it
Use it on arrival in a new city, when you don't know how taxis are found there.
“How do you get a taxi here?” — The sentence in English
In “How do you get a taxi here?” ‘you’ is generic and ‘do’ is required.
- How
- adverbquestion word asking about the way or manner
- do
- auxiliary verbdo · tense: present · auxiliary that makes the question
- you
- pronounpersonal pronoun used for people in general
- get
- verbget · form: base form (infinitive without "to") · here it means "take" or "find"
- a
- determinerindefinite article
- taxi
- nounnoun
- here
- adverbadverb of place
“इथे टॅक्सी कशी मिळते?” — The sentence in Marathi
In “इथे टॅक्सी कशी मिळते?” both ‘कशी’ (how) and ‘मिळते’ (is got) are feminine because ‘टॅक्सी’ is feminine. The habitual ‘मिळते’ asks the usual way here.
- इथे
- adverb'here'
- टॅक्सी
- noun'taxi', feminine
- कशी
- adverb'how', feminine to agree with ṭæksī
- मिळते
- verbmiḷṇe · tense: habitual present · gender: feminine · 'is got' as a rule; asks the usual way
English × Marathi: What changes from one language to the other
English ‘how’ never changes; Marathi ‘कसा, कशी, कसं’ follows the noun's gender.
Example conversation
— इथे टॅक्सी कशी मिळते?
— How do you get a taxi here?
— बहुतेक लोक अॅपवरून बोलावतात.
— Most people book one in an app.