When to use it
Use it on arrival in a new city, when you don't know how taxis are found there.
“How do you get a taxi here?” · The sentence in English
In “How do you get a taxi here?” ‘you’ is generic and ‘do’ is required.
- 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") · here it means "take" or "find"
- a
- determinerindefinite article
- taxi
- nounnoun
- here
- adverbadverb of place
“இங்கே டாக்ஸி எப்படிக் கிடைக்கும்?” · The sentence in Tamil
In “இங்கே டாக்ஸி எப்படிக் கிடைக்கும்?” ‘இங்கே’ (here) comes first and ‘கிடைக்கும்’ (will be found) asks the local way: hailing one or booking in an app.
- இங்கே
- adverb'here, in this place'
- டாக்ஸி
- noun'taxi'
- எப்படிக்
- adverbeppaṭi 'how' + sandhi -k
- கிடைக்கும்
- verbkiṭai · tense: habitual future · person: third · asks the usual way here
What changes from one language to the other · English × Tamil
English says ‘you get’; Tamil says the taxi ‘is found’, with ‘here’ first.
Example conversation
— இங்கே டாக்ஸி எப்படிக் கிடைக்கும்?
— How do you get a taxi here?
— பெரும்பாலானோர் செயலியில் பதிவு செய்கிறார்கள்.
— Most people book one in an app.