When to use it
Use it in a city when you want to rent a bicycle to get around.
The sentence in English — “Where can I rent a bicycle in the city?”
In “Where can I rent a bicycle in the city?” one verb, ‘rent’, does the work, with ‘I’ as subject and ‘in the city’ 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
- rent
- verbrent · form: base form (infinitive without "to") · main verb after "can"
- a
- determinerindefinite article
- bicycle
- nounnoun; often shortened to "bike"
- in
- prepositionpreposition
- the
- determinerdefinite article
- city
- nounnoun
The sentence in Urdu — “شہر میں سائیکل کہاں کرائے پر ملتی ہے؟”
In “شہر میں سائیکل کہاں کرائے پر ملتی ہے؟” the phrase ‘کرائے پر ملنا’ means ‘to be available for rent’. Its subject is ‘سائیکل’ (bicycle, feminine), so the verb is ‘ملتی ہے’; no person is mentioned.
- شہر
- nounmasculine noun 'city'
- میں
- prepositionpostposition 'in'
- سائیکل
- nounfeminine noun 'bicycle'; it makes the verb feminine
- کہاں
- adverbquestion adverb 'where'
- کرائے
- nounoblique of کرایہ 'rent'
- پر
- prepositionکرائے پر = 'on rent'
- ملتی
- verbملنا · aspect: imperfective (general) · gender: feminine · number: singular · 'is available for rent'; its subject is سائیکل
- ہے
- auxiliary verbہونا · tense: present · present
English × Urdu — What changes from one language to the other
One English verb becomes a phrase in Urdu, and Urdu makes the bicycle the subject, which is why the verb is feminine.
Example conversation
— شہر میں سائیکل کہاں کرائے پر ملتی ہے؟
— Where can I rent a bicycle in the city?
— پرانے قلعے کے پاس کرائے کی دکان ہے۔
— There's a rental shop near the old fort.