“Where is the nearest train station?” in Vietnamese: “Ga tàu hỏa gần nhất ở đâu?”

When to use it

Use it when travelling and you need to catch a train to another city.

“Where is the nearest train station?” — The sentence in English

In “Where is the nearest train station?” ‘nearest’ adds ‘-est’ to ‘near’, sits before the noun and needs ‘the’.

Where

adverbquestion word asking about place

is

verbbe · tense: present · person: third · number: singular · form of "to be"; here it says where something is

the

determinerdefinite article

nearest

adjectivesuperlative of "near"

train

nounnoun; it says what kind of station

station

nounnoun

“Ga tàu hỏa gần nhất ở đâu?” — The sentence in Vietnamese

In “Ga tàu hỏa gần nhất ở đâu?” the superlative is the word ‘nhất’ placed after ‘gần’ (near), and the whole phrase follows the noun ‘ga tàu hỏa’ (train station). ‘ga’ comes from French gare.

Ga

noun'station', from French gare

tàu

noun'vessel, train'

hỏa

nountàu hỏa 'train', literally fire vessel

gần

adjective'near'

nhất

adverbafter an adjective it makes the superlative

ở

verbở · tense: unmarked · links the subject to đâu: is located where

đâu

pronounasks for a place, at the end

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

English adds ‘-est’; Vietnamese adds the word ‘nhất’. English puts the adjective before the noun, Vietnamese after it.

Example conversation