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
“రేపు మనం పార్కుకి వెళ్దామా?” · The sentence in Telugu
In “రేపు మనం పార్కుకి వెళ్దామా?” the suggestion lives in one verb, ‘వెళ్దామా’: ‘వెళ్దాం’ (let's go) plus the question ‘ఆ’. ‘మనం’ is an inclusive ‘we’, unlike ‘మేము’, which leaves the listener out.
- రేపు
- adverb'tomorrow', placed first
- మనం
- pronouninclusive 'we', listener included
- పార్కుకి
- nounpārku + -ki 'to'
- వెళ్దామా
- verbveḷḷu · form: hortative (-dāṁ), question (-ā) · person: 1st plural · veḷdāṁ 'let's go' + ā: shall we go?
What changes from one language to the other · English × Telugu
English opens with ‘Shall’; Telugu ends with the suggestion, and has two words for ‘we’.
Example conversation
— రేపు మనం పార్కుకి వెళ్దామా?
— Shall we go to the park tomorrow?
— సరే, వర్షం పడకపోతే.
— Yes, if it doesn't rain.