When to use it
Use it when driving into a busy city centre and you want cheap basement parking.
The sentence in English — “I'm looking for cheap underground parking.”
In “I'm looking for cheap underground parking.” two short adjectives sit before ‘parking’.
- I'm
- contractionbe · tense: present · person: first · number: singular · contraction of "I am"
- looking
- verblook · form: -ing form · "am looking for" is an action happening now
- for
- prepositionpreposition; "look for" means "search"
- cheap
- adjectiveadjective
- underground
- adjectiveadjective; below street level
- parking
- nounnoun
The sentence in Punjabi — “ਮੈਨੂੰ ਸਸਤੀ ਜ਼ਮੀਨਦੋਜ਼ ਪਾਰਕਿੰਗ ਦੀ ਭਾਲ ਹੈ।”
In “ਮੈਨੂੰ ਸਸਤੀ ਜ਼ਮੀਨਦੋਜ਼ ਪਾਰਕਿੰਗ ਦੀ ਭਾਲ ਹੈ।” both adjectives also precede the noun. ‘ਸਸਤੀ’ (cheap) is feminine because ‘ਪਾਰਕਿੰਗ’ is treated as feminine, while ‘ਜ਼ਮੀਨਦੋਜ਼’ (underground) never changes.
- ਮੈਨੂੰ
- pronoun'to me', the driver
- ਸਸਤੀ
- adjective'cheap', feminine for ਪਾਰਕਿੰਗ
- ਜ਼ਮੀਨਦੋਜ਼
- adjective'underground', below ground level
- ਪਾਰਕਿੰਗ
- noun'parking', treated as feminine
- ਦੀ
- prepositionਪਾਰਕਿੰਗ ਦੀ ਭਾਲ = search for parking
- ਭਾਲ
- noun'search', for somewhere to leave the car
- ਹੈ
- auxiliary verbਹੋਣਾ · tense: present · ਭਾਲ ਹੈ, while driving around
English × Punjabi — What changes from one language to the other
Both put adjectives first; in Punjabi ‘cheap’ agrees with the noun's gender.
Example conversation
— ਮੈਨੂੰ ਸਸਤੀ ਜ਼ਮੀਨਦੋਜ਼ ਪਾਰਕਿੰਗ ਦੀ ਭਾਲ ਹੈ।
— I'm looking for cheap underground parking.
— ਮਾਲ ਦੀ ਬੇਸਮੈਂਟ ਸਭ ਤੋਂ ਸਸਤੀ ਹੈ।
— The mall basement is the cheapest.