“Can I exchange money here?” in Tamil

When to use it

Use it at an airport, bank or exchange counter when you need rupees.

The sentence in English (“Can I exchange money here?”)

In “Can I exchange money here?” ‘Can’ moves before ‘I’, and ‘exchange money’ is the usual phrase for currency.

Can

auxiliary verbcan · tense: present · modal verb of ability or permission; it opens the question

I

pronounpersonal pronoun, always written with a capital letter

exchange

verbexchange · form: base form (infinitive without "to") · main verb after "can"

money

noununcountable noun

here

adverbadverb of place

The sentence in Tamil (“நான் இங்கே பணம் மாற்றலாமா?”)

In “நான் இங்கே பணம் மாற்றலாமா?” the ending ‘-லாம்’ gives permission and the final ‘ஆ’ makes it a question, with statement word order.

நான்

pronoun'I', the one changing money

இங்கே

adverb'here'

பணம்

noun'money'

மாற்றலாமா

verbmāṟṟu · form: permissive (-lām), question (-ā) · māṟṟalām 'may change' + ā: may I?

What changes from one language to the other (English × Tamil)

English reorders the words; Tamil adds endings to the verb, so ‘can’ is a suffix.

Example conversation