How do you say yes/no questions?

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  1. Goblin Sleuth

    Goblin Sleuth Well-Known Member

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    "Do you have a pen?"
    "There should be one in the drawer in front of you."
    "It won't write, I saw you using a pen earlier, can I just borrow it?"
    "I don't have it anymore, why not just use a pencil?"
    "I really need a pen for this, where did you put the pen you were using?"
    "Hold on I'll go get it."
    "No I can get it, just tell me where it is."
    "I put it in the drawer in the other room."
    "Which drawer, and which room exactly?"
    "In the kitchen top drawer, second from the left."
    "Yeah it's not in here."
    "Let me look, no wait its in this drawer here."
    "Thanks."
     
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    xnvesha.14 Well-Known Member

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    I also speak Hindi but I know Gujarati!
    You have pen?
    In Bhojpuri
    Pen you have?
     
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    In Tamil, it's:
    Pen have you?

    It is only for actions, the past tense of the verb makes an entire question.
     
  4. Zissel

    Zissel Blue Blue Gold❣❣

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    Hmm..... How to literally translate??? Is it like translating each word and just attaching them????
     
  5. Agentt

    Agentt Loves cats and pats and my wife

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    Yes
     
  6. Zissel

    Zissel Blue Blue Gold❣❣

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    In that way, it'd be
    " Yours near is what pen???" in Bangla
    But the question structure keeps changing based on what we wish to convey
     
  7. Agentt

    Agentt Loves cats and pats and my wife

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    Ah, the first language which I see is similar to hindi
     
  8. Zissel

    Zissel Blue Blue Gold❣❣

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    Truthfully, hindi and Bengali are greatly mixed up with one another. There's loads of similarities. Even some of the alphabets and the fonts are similar
     
  9. Xertz

    Xertz Well-Known Member

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    In Telugu the literal translation is

    "You near pen have?"

    Although a more fitting translation might be "You with pen have?" (Very similar to Hindi)
     
  10. AliceShiki

    AliceShiki 『Ms. Tree』『Magical Girl of Love and Justice』

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    In my language this follows the same structure as English...