When to use it
Use it at an airport to ask staff to help you find your boarding gate.
“Can you help me find my gate?” · The sentence in English
In “Can you help me find my gate?” ‘help me find’ drops ‘to’ before ‘find’.
- Can
- auxiliary verbcan · tense: present · modal verb of ability or permission; it opens the question
- you
- pronounpersonal pronoun
- help
- verbhelp · form: base form (infinitive without "to") · main verb after "can"
- me
- pronounobject pronoun
- find
- verbfind · form: base form (infinitive without "to") · main verb after a modal or after "help me"
- my
- determinerpossessive determiner
- gate
- nounnoun; the boarding gate at an airport
“నా గేట్ వెతకడంలో నాకు సహాయం చేయగలరా?” · The sentence in Telugu
In “నా గేట్ వెతకడంలో నాకు సహాయం చేయగలరా?” the purpose comes first (‘నా గేట్ వెతకడంలో’, in finding my gate), then the request (‘నాకు సహాయం చేయగలరా’, could you help me). ‘సహాయం’ (help) is a noun used with ‘చేయు’ (do).
- నా
- pronoun'my'
- గేట్
- noun'gate', from English
- వెతకడంలో
- verbvetuku · form: verbal noun + -lō · 'in finding'
- నాకు
- pronoun'to me', the one helped
- సహాయం
- noun'help' (noun)
- చేయగలరా
- verbcēyu · form: abilitative, question · person: 2nd, respectful · sahāyaṁ cēyagalarā = could you help
What changes from one language to the other · English × Telugu
English ‘help’ is a verb; Telugu uses noun plus verb, in reverse order.
Example conversation
— నా గేట్ వెతకడంలో నాకు సహాయం చేయగలరా?
— Can you help me find my gate?
— తప్పకుండా, మీ బోర్డింగ్ పాస్ చూపిస్తారా?
— Sure, may I see your boarding pass?