“Did the teacher explain the homework?” in Urdu (English × Urdu)

When to use it

Use it with a child or classmate after school to check whether the teacher explained the homework.

“Did the teacher explain the homework?” · The sentence in English

In “Did the teacher explain the homework?” the past is in ‘Did’, so ‘explain’ stays in its base form; both nouns take ‘the’.

Did

auxiliary verbdo · tense: past · auxiliary that makes a question in the past

the

determinerdefinite article

teacher

nounnoun

explain

verbexplain · form: base form (infinitive without "to") · after "did" the verb stays in its base form

the

determinerdefinite article

homework

noununcountable noun; it has no plural

“کیا استاد نے ہوم ورک سمجھایا؟” · The sentence in Urdu

In “کیا استاد نے ہوم ورک سمجھایا؟” the verb ‘سمجھایا’ is the simple past of سمجھانا (to explain). The subject ‘استاد’ (teacher) takes ‘نے’, and the verb agrees with the object ‘ہوم ورک’, an everyday borrowing from English.

کیا

particleyes/no question particle

استاد

nounmasculine noun 'teacher', the subject

نے

prepositionergative نے, with a transitive verb in the perfective

ہوم

nounfrom English 'home'; ہوم ورک is one name

ورک

nounfrom English 'work'; ہوم ورک = homework

سمجھایا

verbسمجھانا · aspect: perfective · gender: masculine · number: singular · agrees with the object ہوم ورک because of نے

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

English carries the past in ‘Did’; Urdu in the main verb. Urdu marks the subject with ‘نے’ and has no word for ‘the’.

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