"请问，地铁站在哪儿？"

Translation: Excuse me, where is the subway station?

[bugwine]

how come the first character for subway sounds different when in the sentence compared to when clicked on?

[Celticfiddleguy]

地 can also be used as a particle and is then pronounced "de" (it seems this is the "default" pronunciation for this character when it's all alone) but when it means "ground"/ "land"/ "earth"/ "field" or part of compounds it's pronounced "dì".

[Andrew-Lin]

請問地鐵站在哪兒/哪裡？

[CharissaKw]

Excuse me, where is the MTR station?

[woa7dSD5]

In Hong Kong; or MRT in Singapore.

[Andrew-Lin]

The subway systems in Taiwan (including Taipei and Kaohsiung) are also called MRT. But in Mandarin Chinese we call them "捷運/捷运"(jiéyùn), though the concept is generally the same as "地鐵/地铁".

[Firippu_FeiLi]

Why "the". Shouldn't it be "a". Otherwise the sentence sounds unrealistic to me, though I am not a native speaker.

[roman2095]

You would use "the" when you know there is one in the vicinity of either your current location or the location that you are discussing.

[_LolZ_]

I think "a" is 一个

[maartendoc]

地 (dì) = earth/ground/place
铁 (tiě) = iron/weapons/hard/strong
地铁 (dì tiě) = iron ground = subway/metro

[tomy466697]

subway's station should be allowed.