When to use it
Use it to suggest an outing to the park with friends or family.
The sentence in English — “Shall we go to the park tomorrow?”
In “Shall we go to the park tomorrow?” ‘Shall we’ is a polite suggestion and ‘go’ needs ‘to the’.
- Shall
- auxiliary verbshall · tense: present · modal verb; "Shall we…?" makes a suggestion
- we
- pronounpersonal pronoun, first person plural
- go
- verbgo · form: base form (infinitive without "to") · main verb after "shall"
- to
- prepositionpreposition of direction
- the
- determinerdefinite article
- park
- nounnoun
- tomorrow
- adverbadverb of time
The sentence in Marathi — “उद्या आपण बागेत जाऊया का?”
In “उद्या आपण बागेत जाऊया का?” the suggestion lives in the verb form ‘जाऊया’ (let's go). ‘आपण’ is an inclusive ‘we’, and the suffix ‘-ेत’ on ‘बागेत’ does the work of ‘to the’.
- उद्या
- adverb'tomorrow', placed first
- आपण
- pronouninclusive 'we', listener included
- बागेत
- nounbāg 'park, garden' + locative -et
- जाऊया
- verbjāṇe · form: hortative, 1st plural · 'let's go'; a suggestion to do something together
- का
- particleturns the suggestion into a question
English × Marathi — What changes from one language to the other
English opens with ‘Shall’; Marathi puts the suggestion in the verb ending, and three English words, ‘to the park’, become one.
Example conversation
— उद्या आपण बागेत जाऊया का?
— Shall we go to the park tomorrow?
— हो, पाऊस नसेल तर.
— Yes, if it doesn't rain.