When to use it
Use it when driving into a city centre and you want cheap basement parking.
The sentence in English — “I'm looking for cheap underground parking.”
In “I'm looking for cheap underground parking.” both adjectives, ‘cheap’ and ‘underground’, sit before ‘parking’.
- I'm
- contractionbe · tense: present · person: first · number: singular · contraction of "I am"
- looking
- verblook · form: -ing form · "am looking for" is an action happening now
- for
- prepositionpreposition; "look for" means "search"
- cheap
- adjectiveadjective
- underground
- adjectiveadjective; below street level
- parking
- nounnoun
The sentence in Vietnamese — “Tôi đang tìm bãi đỗ xe ngầm giá rẻ.”
In “Tôi đang tìm bãi đỗ xe ngầm giá rẻ.” the adjectives follow the noun: first ‘ngầm’ (underground), then ‘giá rẻ’ (low price, cheap). ‘bãi đỗ xe’ (parking lot) takes three syllables.
- Tôi
- pronoun'I', the driver
- đang
- adverb'right now'
- tìm
- verbtìm · tense: ongoing (via đang) · looking while driving in town
- bãi
- noun'open area, lot'
- đỗ
- nounđỗ xe = park; bãi đỗ xe = parking
- xe
- nounpart of bãi đỗ xe
- ngầm
- adjective'underground', after the noun
- giá
- noun'price'; giá rẻ = cheap
- rẻ
- adjective'cheap'
English × Vietnamese — What changes from one language to the other
English stacks adjectives before the noun; Vietnamese after it, in mirror order.
Example conversation
— Tôi đang tìm bãi đỗ xe ngầm giá rẻ.
— I'm looking for cheap underground parking.
— Hầm trung tâm thương mại là rẻ nhất.
— The shopping mall basement is the cheapest.