When to use it
Use it when you are new to an area and want a good place to eat nearby.
The sentence in English: “Where can I find a good restaurant nearby?”
In “Where can I find a good restaurant nearby?” the subject is ‘I’, ‘can’ moves before it, and ‘nearby’ comes last.
- Where
- adverbquestion word asking about place
- can
- auxiliary verbcan · tense: present · modal verb of ability or permission
- I
- pronounpersonal pronoun, always written with a capital letter
- find
- verbfind · form: base form (infinitive without "to") · main verb after a modal or after "help me"
- a
- determinerindefinite article
- good
- adjectiveadjective
- restaurant
- nounnoun
- nearby
- adjectiveadjective placed after the noun
The sentence in Urdu: “مجھے قریب میں اچھا ریسٹورنٹ کہاں ملے گا؟”
In “مجھے قریب میں اچھا ریسٹورنٹ کہاں ملے گا؟” the verb ملنا (to be found) has the restaurant as its subject and the person as ‘مجھے’ (to me), so ‘ملے گا’ (will be found) is masculine singular. Urdu uses the future here.
- مجھے
- pronounمیں + کو; with ملنا, the one who gets
- قریب
- adverb'near'; قریب میں = 'nearby'
- میں
- prepositionpostposition میں
- اچھا
- adjectiveadjective 'good', masculine
- ریسٹورنٹ
- nounmasculine noun 'restaurant', the subject of ملنا
- کہاں
- adverbquestion adverb 'where'
- ملے
- verbملنا · tense: future · gender: masculine · number: singular · ملے گا 'will be found'; its subject is ریسٹورنٹ
- گا
- auxiliary verbگا · tense: future · gender: masculine · future marker, masculine for ریسٹورنٹ
What changes from one language to the other: English × Urdu
English says ‘I find’, Urdu ‘to me will be found’; the ‘مجھے’ pattern is common (مجھے چاہیے، مجھے پسند ہے).
Example conversation
— مجھے قریب میں اچھا ریسٹورنٹ کہاں ملے گا؟
— Where can I find a good restaurant nearby?
— دریا کے پاس والا آزمائیں، کھانا بہت اچھا ہے۔
— Try the one by the river, the food is great.