nǐ tīngshuō xiūchēdiàn zài fùjìn ma?

听说 literally combines 听 (to hear) and 说 (to say / speak), but together it usually means to hear, to hear about, or to hear that.

In this sentence, it works like have you heard... or have you heard that.... It suggests information that someone may have learned from other people, not necessarily something they know firsthand.

吗 turns a statement into a yes/no question.

So:

你听说修车店在附近。
= You heard that the repair shop is nearby.

你听说修车店在附近吗？
= Have you heard that the repair shop is nearby?

It is one of the most basic ways to form a yes/no question in Mandarin.

Mandarin often does not need a separate word like English that in this kind of sentence.

After verbs like 听说, you can directly put the information that was heard:

你听说 + 修车店在附近 + 吗？

So Chinese does not need an extra connector here. This is very normal.

修车店 is a compound noun:

• 修 = repair, fix
• 车 = vehicle, car
• 店 = shop, store

So 修车店 means car repair shop, auto repair shop, or garage.

Depending on context, English might translate it in slightly different ways.

在 means to be at / in / located at, and 附近 means nearby or the nearby area.

Together, 在附近 means is nearby or is in the vicinity.

So:

修车店在附近
= The repair shop is nearby.

This is a very common Mandarin pattern:

thing/place/person + 在 + location

So:

• 学校在那儿 = The school is there.
• 我在家 = I am at home.
• 修车店在附近 = The repair shop is nearby.

English sometimes uses is nearby without a preposition, but Mandarin often uses 在 before the location expression.

As written, it can sound like it is talking about a repair shop in a somewhat general way, but it may also suggest a particular repair shop already being discussed. Mandarin often leaves this kind of thing to context because it has no direct equivalent of English a or the.

If you want to ask more clearly Is there a repair shop nearby?, a more natural sentence is:

附近有修车店吗？
or
这附近有修车店吗？

If you want to keep 听说, you could say:

你听说附近有修车店吗？
= Have you heard whether there is a repair shop nearby?

That version is often more natural than the original if you mean any repair shop nearby.

Mandarin does not have articles like English a, an, or the.

So 修车店 can mean:

• a repair shop
• the repair shop
• repair shops in a general sense

The exact meaning depends on context.

That is why this sentence can feel a little more open or ambiguous than the English translation.

Not always. Mandarin often drops subjects when they are obvious from context.

So in conversation, people may omit 你 if it is clear they are speaking to the listener. However, keeping 你 makes the sentence more direct and explicit:

你听说修车店在附近吗？
= Have you heard...?

Without 你, it may sound a bit less direct or a little more like a general question depending on the situation.

It is understandable, but whether it sounds natural depends on what you mean.

If you mean Have you heard that the repair shop is nearby?, then it can work.

But if you really mean Do you know whether there is a repair shop nearby?, then more natural options are:

附近有修车店吗？
= Is there a repair shop nearby?

你知道附近有修车店吗？
= Do you know whether there is a repair shop nearby?

你听说附近有修车店吗？
= Have you heard whether there is a repair shop nearby?

So the original sentence is possible, but many learners would want to know that there are more natural alternatives depending on the intended meaning.

They are similar, but not the same.

听说 focuses on having heard the information, often from someone else.
知道 focuses on knowing the information.

So:

你听说附近有修车店吗？
= Have you heard that there is a repair shop nearby?

你知道附近有修车店吗？
= Do you know whether there is a repair shop nearby?

In everyday speech, 知道 is often the more natural choice if you are simply asking someone for information.