“How do you get to the central station from here?” in Marathi: “इथून मध्यवर्ती स्टेशनला कसं जायचं?”

When to use it

Use it to ask the way to the main station in town.

“How do you get to the central station from here?” — The sentence in English

In “How do you get to the central station from here?” generic ‘you’ and ‘do’ are needed.

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") · "get to" means "arrive at"

to

prepositionpreposition of direction; "get to" means "arrive at"

the

determinerdefinite article

central

adjectiveadjective

station

nounnoun

from

prepositionpreposition

here

adverbadverb of place

“इथून मध्यवर्ती स्टेशनला कसं जायचं?” — The sentence in Marathi

In “इथून मध्यवर्ती स्टेशनला कसं जायचं?” there is no subject: ‘जायचं’ asks how one is to go. ‘from’ and ‘to’ are suffixes: ‘इथून’ (from here) and ‘स्टेशनला’ (to the station).

इथून

adverb'from here'

मध्यवर्ती

adjective'central'

स्टेशनला

nounsṭeśan + -lā 'to'

कसं

adverb'how'

जायचं

verbjāṇe · form: intentive (-āycã) · 'to go'; how one should go, no subject

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

English uses separate words for ‘from’ and ‘to’; Marathi uses suffixes, with no subject.

Example conversation