Asking for Directions in Punjabi ਰਸਤਾ

What to know before you use these

• Directions run on landmarks, not street names — Expect turns and reference points — the chowk, the gurdwara, the shop — rather than road names or distances in metres.
• "... kitthe hai?" is the frame to memorise — Put any noun in front of it and you have a working question. It is the highest-value sentence pattern on this page.
• Keep the conversation alive when you lose it — "Mainu samajh nahin aai" and "hauli bolo ji" buy you another attempt instead of ending the exchange in an apologetic silence.

Other situations

Smaller topics — meeting someone new, the weather, shopping, work, family — live in the full phrasebook, alongside every phrase on this page. See the phrasebook index for the whole set, or the dialogues for these phrases inside whole conversations.