When to use it
Use it in a chemist's shop to check whether a medicine is sold over the counter.
The sentence in English — “Can I buy medicine without a prescription?”
In “Can I buy medicine without a prescription?” ‘Can’ moves before ‘I’ and ‘without’ precedes the noun.
- Can
- auxiliary verbcan · tense: present · modal verb of ability or permission; it opens the question
- I
- pronounpersonal pronoun, always written with a capital letter
- buy
- verbbuy · form: base form (infinitive without "to") · main verb after "can"
- medicine
- noununcountable noun here, used in a general sense
- without
- prepositionpreposition
- a
- determinerindefinite article
- prescription
- nounnoun; a doctor's written order for medicine
The sentence in Telugu — “డాక్టర్ చీటీ లేకుండా నేను మందులు కొనవచ్చా?”
In “డాక్టర్ చీటీ లేకుండా నేను మందులు కొనవచ్చా?” ‘లేకుండా’ (without) follows ‘డాక్టర్ చీటీ’ (doctor's slip). In ‘కొనవచ్చా’, ‘వచ్చు’ gives permission and the final ‘ఆ’ asks.
- డాక్టర్
- noun'doctor'
- చీటీ
- noun'slip'; ḍākṭar cīṭī = prescription
- లేకుండా
- preposition'without', after the noun
- నేను
- pronoun'I'
- మందులు
- nounplural of mandu 'medicine'
- కొనవచ్చా
- verbkonu · form: permissive (-vaccu), question (-ā) · konu 'buy' + vaccu 'may' + ā: may I buy?
English × Telugu — What changes from one language to the other
English prepositions come before the noun; Telugu postpositions after.
Example conversation
— డాక్టర్ చీటీ లేకుండా నేను మందులు కొనవచ్చా?
— Can I buy medicine without a prescription?
— ఇది ఇస్తాం, యాంటీబయాటిక్స్ ఇవ్వం.
— This one yes, antibiotics no.