“How do you get to the central station from here?” in Vietnamese

When to use it

Use it to ask for directions from where you are to the main station.

The sentence in English: “How do you get to the central station from here?”

In “How do you get to the central station from here?” generic ‘you’ is needed, ‘get to’ means reach, and ‘from here’ goes last.

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

get

verbget · form: base form (infinitive without "to") · "get to" means "arrive at"

to

prepositionpreposition of direction; "get to" means "arrive at"

the

determinerdefinite article

central

adjectiveadjective

station

nounnoun

from

prepositionpreposition

here

adverbadverb of place

The sentence in Vietnamese: “Từ đây đến ga trung tâm đi thế nào?”

In “Từ đây đến ga trung tâm đi thế nào?” the route ‘từ đây đến ga trung tâm’ (from here to the central station) comes first, and ‘đi thế nào’ (go how) closes the question. There is no subject.

Từ

preposition'from', the starting point

đây

pronountừ đây = from here

đến

preposition'to', the destination

ga

noun'station'

trung

adjectivefirst syllable of trung tâm

tâm

adjectivetrung tâm 'central', after ga

đi

verbđi · tense: unmarked · here the way of travelling: how to go

thế

pronoun'so, like that'

nào

determinerthế nào = how

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

English opens with ‘How’ and ends with ‘from here’; Vietnamese starts from ‘từ đây’ and ends with ‘thế nào’, without a subject.

Example conversation