Travel and Tourist Transactions
Asking for a room, a key and a price, and the reason an Urdu question ends with the word an English one starts with.
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دکان میں 🛍️
You already know one thing about how Urdu builds a sentence: the little words come **after** the noun, not before it. ہوٹل میں (hotel mein) is *hotel in*. This module gives you the rest of that idea, and the vocabulary to buy something with it. Every word is shown three ways: the **Urdu script**, a **transliteration** in brackets to help you say it, and the **English**.
Key words 🗂️
Five words a traveller needs, plus two you can already read: **ٹکٹ (ticket)** and **بازار (bazaar)** mean exactly what they sound like, so they are worth knowing but not worth testing.
Match each word to its meaning
- پیسے (paise)
- کمرہ (kamra)
- چابی (chaabi)
- دکان (dukaan)
- money
- room
- key
- shop
The word that comes last 🔚
**ہے (hai)** is the Urdu for "is", and it goes at the **end** of the sentence. English asks *Where **is** the key?* and puts its verb near the front. Urdu asks **چابی کہاں ہے؟ (chaabi kahan hai?)**, which is, word for word, *key where is?* That is the same idea you already met with ہوٹل میں. The little words follow the noun, and ہے follows everything. **Urdu ends where English begins.**
What is being asked? 🔑
At the hotel desk you say: چابی کہاں ہے؟ (chaabi kahan hai?) What have you asked?
- Where is the key?
- This is the key
- I would like a key
- Whose key is this?
The rule 📝
The Urdu word for "is" is _____, and it goes at the _____ of the sentence. So "Where is the key?" becomes _____, which word for word is _____. Little words like میں (mein) also come _____ the noun rather than in front of it.
The same sentence, back to front ↔️
Read each pair across. The Urdu is not a jumbled English sentence; it is a consistent order, and once you expect ہے at the end you can hear where a sentence stops.
Build the sentence 🧱
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Which are right? ✅
Select the TWO that follow Urdu word order.
- کمرہ خالی ہے۔ for "The room is free."
- دکان میں for "in the shop"
- ہے کمرہ خالی۔ for "The room is free."
- میں دکان for "in the shop"
ہوٹل میں 🧭
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The summary 🖊️
Money is _____ and a shop is _____. A room that is not taken is _____. To ask where something is you use _____ and finish the sentence with ہے. The whole habit to build is that Urdu puts its "is" at the _____ of the sentence.
Your turn ✍️
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