When to use it
Use it when leaving a hotel or shop and you need the way to the main station.
The sentence in English: “How do you get to the central station from here?”
In “How do you get to the central station from here?” generic ‘you’ means anyone, and ‘get to’ means reach.
- 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
The sentence in Punjabi: “ਇੱਥੋਂ ਮੁੱਖ ਸਟੇਸ਼ਨ ਕਿਵੇਂ ਜਾਈਦਾ ਹੈ?”
In “ਇੱਥੋਂ ਮੁੱਖ ਸਟੇਸ਼ਨ ਕਿਵੇਂ ਜਾਈਦਾ ਹੈ?” the impersonal ‘ਜਾਈਦਾ ਹੈ’ (one goes) needs no subject at all. ‘ਇੱਥੋਂ’ (from here) fuses here and from, and the destination ‘ਸਟੇਸ਼ਨ’ takes no postposition.
- ਇੱਥੋਂ
- adverb'from here' (here + from)
- ਮੁੱਖ
- adjective'main, central'
- ਸਟੇਸ਼ਨ
- noun'station', the destination, with no postposition
- ਕਿਵੇਂ
- adverb'how', asking the way
- ਜਾਈਦਾ
- verbਜਾਣਾ · form: impersonal present · 'one goes', not about any particular person
- ਹੈ
- auxiliary verbਹੋਣਾ · tense: present · completes the impersonal ਜਾਈਦਾ ਹੈ
What changes from one language to the other: English × Punjabi
English uses generic ‘you’; Punjabi has a dedicated impersonal verb form.
Example conversation
— ਇੱਥੋਂ ਮੁੱਖ ਸਟੇਸ਼ਨ ਕਿਵੇਂ ਜਾਈਦਾ ਹੈ?
— How do you get to the central station from here?
— ਹਰੀ ਬੱਸ ਲਓ, ਚੌਥਾ ਸਟਾਪ ਹੈ।
— Take the green bus, it's the fourth stop.