“Where is the bus stop?” in Marathi: “बस थांबा कुठे आहे?”

When to use it

Use it in Pune or Mumbai when you need a bus and ask a passer-by for the stop.

“Where is the bus stop?” — The sentence in English

In “Where is the bus stop?” the question word leads, then ‘is’, then the subject with ‘the’.

Where

adverbquestion word asking about place

is

verbbe · tense: present · person: third · number: singular · form of "to be"; here it says where something is

the

determinerdefinite article

bus

nounnoun; it says what kind of stop

stop

nounnoun; the main word of "bus stop"

“बस थांबा कुठे आहे?” — The sentence in Marathi

In “बस थांबा कुठे आहे?” the subject ‘बस थांबा’ (bus stop) comes first, then ‘कुठे’ (where), and the verb ‘आहे’ (is) closes the sentence. Marathi does not reorder words to ask.

बस

noun'bus', from English, before thāmbā

थांबा

noun'stop', the place where a vehicle halts

कुठे

adverbquestion word 'where', before the verb

आहे

verbasṇe · tense: present · person: third · 'is'; comes at the end

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

English puts the verb in the middle; Marathi puts it last, and has no article.

Example conversation