When to use it
Use it to check whether a supermarket opens on Sundays before you plan your shopping.
“Is the supermarket open on Sundays?” · The sentence in English
In “Is the supermarket open on Sundays?” ‘Is’ moves before the subject, ‘open’ is an adjective, and the plural ‘Sundays’ means every Sunday.
- Is
- verbbe · tense: present · person: third · number: singular · form of "to be"; it moves to the front to make the question
- the
- determinerdefinite article
- supermarket
- nounnoun
- open
- adjectiveadjective; in English a shop "is open"
- on
- prepositionpreposition used with days of the week
- Sundays
- nounplural noun; days of the week take a capital letter
“کیا سپر مارکیٹ اتوار کو کھلی رہتی ہے؟” · The sentence in Urdu
In “کیا سپر مارکیٹ اتوار کو کھلی رہتی ہے؟” the phrase ‘کھلی رہتی ہے’ (stays open) is a habitual present. In Urdu ‘مارکیٹ’ is feminine, so ‘کھلی’ (open) and ‘رہتی’ are feminine; days take ‘کو’: ‘اتوار کو’ (on Sunday).
- کیا
- particleyes/no question particle
- سپر
- adjectivefrom English 'super'; سپر مارکیٹ is one name
- مارکیٹ
- nounfeminine noun 'market'; it makes the verb feminine
- اتوار
- nounmasculine noun 'Sunday'
- کو
- prepositionکو with a day: 'on Sunday'
- کھلی
- adjectiveadjective 'open', feminine for مارکیٹ
- رہتی
- verbرہنا · aspect: imperfective (habitual) · gender: feminine · number: singular · کھلی رہتی ہے 'stays open' as a rule
- ہے
- auxiliary verbہونا · tense: present · present
What changes from one language to the other · English × Urdu
English asks with ‘Is … open’; Urdu adds رہنا for ‘regularly open’. English ‘on’ precedes the day, Urdu ‘کو’ follows it, and the Urdu adjective agrees in gender.
Example conversation
— کیا سپر مارکیٹ اتوار کو کھلی رہتی ہے؟
— Is the supermarket open on Sundays?
— ہاں، لیکن صرف دوپہر دو بجے تک۔
— Yes, but only until two in the afternoon.