“Shall we go to the park tomorrow?” in Tamil: “நாளை நாம் பூங்காவுக்குப் போகலாமா?”

When to use it

Use it to suggest an outing to the park with friends or family.

“Shall we go to the park tomorrow?” — The sentence in English

In “Shall we go to the park tomorrow?” ‘Shall we’ is a polite suggestion and ‘go’ needs ‘to the’.

Shall

auxiliary verbshall · tense: present · modal verb; "Shall we…?" makes a suggestion

we

pronounpersonal pronoun, first person plural

go

verbgo · form: base form (infinitive without "to") · main verb after "shall"

to

prepositionpreposition of direction

the

determinerdefinite article

park

nounnoun

tomorrow

adverbadverb of time

“நாளை நாம் பூங்காவுக்குப் போகலாமா?” — The sentence in Tamil

In “நாளை நாம் பூங்காவுக்குப் போகலாமா?” the suggestion lives in one verb, ‘போகலாமா’ (shall we go?). ‘நாம்’ is an inclusive ‘we’, unlike ‘நாங்கள்’, and ‘-வுக்கு’ on the noun means ‘to’.

நாளை

adverb'tomorrow', placed first

நாம்

pronouninclusive 'we', listener included

பூங்காவுக்குப்

nounpūṅkā 'park' + -vukku 'to' + sandhi -p

போகலாமா

verbpō · form: permissive (-lām), question (-ā) · pōkalām 'we may go' + ā: shall we go?

English × Tamil: What changes from one language to the other

English opens with ‘Shall’; Tamil ends with the suggestion, and has two words for ‘we’.

Example conversation