When to use it
Use it when you are hungry somewhere new and want a local's tip.
The sentence in English (“Where can I find a good restaurant nearby?”)
In “Where can I find a good restaurant nearby?” ‘I’ is the subject and ‘nearby’ comes last.
- Where
- adverbquestion word asking about place
- can
- auxiliary verbcan · tense: present · modal verb of ability or permission
- I
- pronounpersonal pronoun, always written with a capital letter
- find
- verbfind · form: base form (infinitive without "to") · main verb after a modal or after "help me"
- a
- determinerindefinite article
- good
- adjectiveadjective
- restaurant
- nounnoun
- nearby
- adjectiveadjective placed after the noun
The sentence in Punjabi (“ਇੱਥੇ ਨੇੜੇ ਕੋਈ ਵਧੀਆ ਰੈਸਟੋਰੈਂਟ ਕਿੱਥੇ ਮਿਲੇਗਾ?”)
In “ਇੱਥੇ ਨੇੜੇ ਕੋਈ ਵਧੀਆ ਰੈਸਟੋਰੈਂਟ ਕਿੱਥੇ ਮਿਲੇਗਾ?” the subject is ‘ਰੈਸਟੋਰੈਂਟ’ (restaurant) and ‘ਮਿਲੇਗਾ’ (will be found) agrees with it, so the asker's gender never shows. ‘ਕੋਈ’ works like ‘a’.
- ਇੱਥੇ
- adverbਇੱਥੇ ਨੇੜੇ = around here
- ਨੇੜੇ
- adverb'nearby', giving the area
- ਕੋਈ
- determiner'some, any': no particular one
- ਵਧੀਆ
- adjective'good'
- ਰੈਸਟੋਰੈਂਟ
- noun'restaurant', masculine
- ਕਿੱਥੇ
- adverb'where', asking for a place to eat
- ਮਿਲੇਗਾ
- verbਮਿਲਣਾ · tense: future · form: masculine singular · 'will be found', agreeing with ਰੈਸਟੋਰੈਂਟ
What changes from one language to the other (English × Punjabi)
English asks where I can find; Punjabi asks where one will be found, with ‘near here’ first.
Example conversation
— ਇੱਥੇ ਨੇੜੇ ਕੋਈ ਵਧੀਆ ਰੈਸਟੋਰੈਂਟ ਕਿੱਥੇ ਮਿਲੇਗਾ?
— Where can I find a good restaurant nearby?
— ਪੁਲ ਕੋਲ ਵਾਲਾ ਢਾਬਾ ਅਜ਼ਮਾਓ।
— Try the dhaba by the bridge.