“Can you help me find my gate?” in Urdu

When to use it

Use it at an airport to ask staff to help you find your boarding gate.

The sentence in English: “Can you help me find my gate?”

In “Can you help me find my gate?” ‘help’ is followed by ‘me’ and then ‘find’ without ‘to’; ‘my’ never changes.

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

The sentence in Urdu: “کیا آپ میرا گیٹ ڈھونڈنے میں میری مدد کر سکتے ہیں؟”

In “کیا آپ میرا گیٹ ڈھونڈنے میں میری مدد کر سکتے ہیں؟” the task comes first, ‘میرا گیٹ ڈھونڈنے میں’ (in finding my gate), with the infinitive becoming ‘ڈھونڈنے’ before ‘میں’. Then ‘میری مدد کر سکتے ہیں’ (can you do my help). ‘میرا’ is masculine for ‘گیٹ’, ‘میری’ feminine for ‘مدد’.

کیا

particleyes/no question particle

آپ

pronounpolite pronoun 'you'

میرا

pronounpossessive 'my', masculine for گیٹ

گیٹ

nounmasculine noun 'gate' (airport)

ڈھونڈنے

verbڈھونڈنا · form: oblique infinitive · ڈھونڈنے میں 'in finding'

میں

prepositionpostposition 'in': help in a task

میری

pronounpossessive 'my', feminine for مدد

مدد

nounfeminine noun 'help'; مدد کرنا = 'to help'

کر

verbکرنا · form: stem · stem of کرنا before سکنا

سکتے

auxiliary verbسکنا · gender: masculine · number: plural (respect) · respectful plural for آپ

ہیں

auxiliary verbہونا · tense: present · number: plural · with آپ

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

English chains ‘help me find’; Urdu puts the task before the help, and its possessive agrees with the noun.

Example conversation