“How do you write a formal letter in French?” in Urdu: “فرانسیسی میں رسمی خط کیسے لکھتے ہیں؟”

When to use it

Use it when you ask a teacher or colleague how a formal letter is written in another language.

“How do you write a formal letter in French?” — The sentence in English

In “How do you write a formal letter in French?” ‘you’ is generic, the question needs ‘do’, and ‘French’ takes a capital letter.

How

adverbquestion word asking about the way or manner

do

auxiliary verbdo · tense: present · auxiliary that makes the question

you

pronounpersonal pronoun used for people in general

write

verbwrite · form: base form (infinitive without "to") · main verb after "do you"

a

determinerindefinite article

formal

adjectiveadjective

letter

nounnoun

in

prepositionpreposition

French

nounnoun; the name of the language, always capitalised

“فرانسیسی میں رسمی خط کیسے لکھتے ہیں؟” — The sentence in Urdu

In “فرانسیسی میں رسمی خط کیسے لکھتے ہیں؟” there is no subject: the plural ‘لکھتے ہیں’ (write) states the general way. ‘فرانسیسی میں’ (in French) opens the sentence and ‘رسمی خط’ (formal letter) is the object.

فرانسیسی

nounnoun 'French' (language)

میں

prepositionpostposition 'in'

رسمی

adjectiveadjective 'formal'

خط

nounmasculine noun 'letter'

کیسے

adverbquestion adverb 'how'

لکھتے

verbلکھنا · aspect: imperfective (general) · number: plural · subject: unstated, people in general · plural with no subject: the general way

ہیں

auxiliary verbہونا · tense: present · number: plural · general statement

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

Urdu puts the language first, English last, and Urdu script has no capital letters.

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