When to use it
Use it on a Sunday when you need medicine and your usual shop is closed.
The sentence in English: “I'm looking for a pharmacy open on Sunday.”
In “I'm looking for a pharmacy open on Sunday.” ‘open on Sunday’ follows the noun.
- I'm
- contractionbe · tense: present · person: first · number: singular · contraction of "I am"
- looking
- verblook · form: -ing form · "am looking for" is an action happening now
- for
- prepositionpreposition; "look for" means "search"
- a
- determinerindefinite article
- pharmacy
- nounnoun
- open
- adjectiveadjective; in English a shop "is open"
- on
- prepositionpreposition used with days of the week
- Sunday
- proper nounproper noun; days of the week take a capital letter
The sentence in Telugu: “ఆదివారం తెరిచి ఉండే మందుల దుకాణం కోసం వెతుకుతున్నాను.”
In “ఆదివారం తెరిచి ఉండే మందుల దుకాణం కోసం వెతుకుతున్నాను.” there is no ‘I’: the ending ‘-ను’ of ‘వెతుకుతున్నాను’ (I am looking) marks the speaker. The description ‘ఆదివారం తెరిచి ఉండే’ (which stays open on Sunday) comes before ‘మందుల దుకాణం’ (shop of medicines).
- ఆదివారం
- noun'Sunday'
- తెరిచి
- verbterucu · form: conjunctive (-i) · tericci uṇḍē = which stays open
- ఉండే
- verbuṇḍu · form: relative participle (-ē) · describes the shop
- మందుల
- noun'of medicines'
- దుకాణం
- nounmandula dukāṇaṁ = pharmacy
- కోసం
- preposition'for'
- వెతుకుతున్నాను
- verbvetuku · tense: present continuous · person: 1st · 'I am looking'; no 'I' needed
What changes from one language to the other: English × Telugu
English puts the description after the noun and needs ‘I’; Telugu puts it before and drops ‘I’.
Example conversation
— ఆదివారం తెరిచి ఉండే మందుల దుకాణం కోసం వెతుకుతున్నాను.
— I'm looking for a pharmacy open on Sunday.
— ఆసుపత్రి దగ్గరి షాపు తెరిచి ఉంది.
— The one near the hospital is open.