“Shall we go to the park tomorrow?” in Urdu

When to use it

Use it to suggest an outing to a friend for the next day.

The sentence in English: “Shall we go to the park tomorrow?”

In “Shall we go to the park tomorrow?” ‘Shall’ comes before ‘we’ and makes a suggestion; ‘go to the park’ needs ‘to’, and ‘tomorrow’ goes last.

Shall

auxiliary verbshall · tense: present · modal verb; "Shall we…?" makes a suggestion

we

pronounpersonal pronoun, first person plural

go

verbgo · form: base form (infinitive without "to") · main verb after "shall"

to

prepositionpreposition of direction

the

determinerdefinite article

park

nounnoun

tomorrow

adverbadverb of time

The sentence in Urdu: “کیا ہم کل پارک چلیں؟”

In “کیا ہم کل پارک چلیں؟” the verb ‘چلیں’ is a subjunctive of چلنا (to go): with ‘ہم’ (we) it means ‘shall we go?’. The destination ‘پارک’ needs no postposition, and ‘کل’ comes before the place.

کیا

particlequestion particle; turns a suggestion into a question

ہم

pronoun1st person plural 'we'

کل

adverbhere 'tomorrow'; کل means both 'yesterday' and 'tomorrow'

پارک

nounmasculine noun 'park', the destination, without a postposition

چلیں

verbچلنا · mood: subjunctive · person: 1st · number: plural · subjunctive 'shall we go', a suggestion

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

Urdu ‘کل’ means both ‘yesterday’ and ‘tomorrow’; the subjunctive shows it is tomorrow. English needs ‘to’ before the destination, Urdu does not.

Example conversation