“How can I get a refund?” in Urdu (English × Urdu)

When to use it

Use it at a shop counter or booking office when you want your money back.

“How can I get a refund?” · The sentence in English

In “How can I get a refund?” ‘refund’ is a single noun, ‘I’ is the subject, and ‘can’ moves before it.

How

adverbquestion word asking about the way or manner

can

auxiliary verbcan · tense: present · modal verb of ability or permission

I

pronounpersonal pronoun, always written with a capital letter

get

verbget · form: base form (infinitive without "to") · here it means "obtain"

a

determinerindefinite article

refund

nounnoun; money given back

“مجھے پیسے واپس کیسے مل سکتے ہیں؟” · The sentence in Urdu

In “مجھے پیسے واپس کیسے مل سکتے ہیں؟” the subject of ملنا (to be received) is ‘پیسے’ (money, plural) and the person is ‘مجھے’ (to me), so ‘سکتے ہیں’ is plural. ‘پیسے واپس’ (money back) is how Urdu says ‘refund’.

مجھے

pronounمیں + کو; with ملنا, the one who receives

پیسے

nounmasculine plural 'money', the subject of ملنا

واپس

adverb'back'; پیسے واپس ملنا = 'get a refund'

کیسے

adverbquestion adverb 'how'

مل

verbملنا · form: stem · ملنا 'to be received'

سکتے

auxiliary verbسکنا · gender: masculine · number: plural · plural for پیسے, not for 'me'

ہیں

auxiliary verbہونا · tense: present · number: plural · plural for پیسے

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

One English noun becomes ‘پیسے واپس’, and ‘I get’ becomes ‘money comes to me’, with the verb agreeing with the money.

Example conversation