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OBLIGATION There are a few times you are obliged to do something or perform an action, for example, I have to keep this blog running (but I seem to be terrible at it). Maybe, you have to attend someone’s wedding or someone needs to go to the dentist. These things are called ‘obligations’ where you ‘have to’ … Read more
In Traditional (English) grammar, a clause is said to consist of a subject and a predicate. However, let’s not truly think of clauses in that way in Nepali.Instead, clauses can be defined in another way. A clause is a unit of grammatical organization next below the sentence in rank. That means, it is the smallest … Read more
Conversing in longer sentences seem to be the goal of any language learner. After all, longer sentences make us more ‘professional’ in speaking a language. First thing, what is a ‘long sentence’ composed of? For that, we we need to look at what long sentences are really made up of. As we know, long sentences … Read more
Previously I told I would tell more about phrases. Drum rolls please *durrrr* As a recap, phrase are simply group of related words within a sentence which lacks both a subject and a predicate. A sentence may be made up of many phrases! Phrases are called वाक्यांश (bakyansha) in Nepali. NOMINAL PHRASES Nominal phrases, … Read more
Let’s talk about mathematics today. This is a short post but should help you use cardinal, ordinal and nominal numbers in Nepali. It isn’t that difficult, to be honest! CARDINAL NUMBERS Cardinal numbers are numbers denoting quantity, meaning you use them to count. What are the Pope’s favourite numbers?= Cardinal Numbers They answer questions like … Read more
INTRODUCTION When you compare two similar (or dissimilar objects) in English, we use words like ’Like’ or ’as’. For example, we maysay ’She has a pen like yours’ or ‘John eats like a glutton’ (sorry John). When we do so, we are comparing two objects using the connector ’like’. Hence, you are finding similarity between two … Read more
Can we mere more-tals successfully make out what more is? Perhaps, the more we think of it, the more we do not understand it. Hmm…I think I have heard this quote somewhere. Smore. ZZZ Let’s look over words that describe ’more’ in Nepali! As an added bonus, I have added how to use ‘all’ (sabai) … Read more
There are certain times when we have clearly thought less is always more. Perhaps, less spicy food might have had save you from your early morning rendezvous with the toilet or less problems are always better. This time, we will be looking over words that describe less and as an added bonus, how to use the word … Read more
Interjectory Words are called ‘नीपात’ (nipaat) in Nepali. Some books use ‘निपात’ (nipaat) as an alternative spelling. Interjectory words are very important in Nepali Everyday speech! Some people also call them ‘Emphasis’ words or Particles (since I already call something else particles, I will call them interjectory words instead). These interjectory words provide Emphasis on … Read more
The first quantity expressing words we will be looking at will be धेरै (dherai) and थोरै (thorai). Dherai denotes more quantity while thorai denotes less quantity. DHERAI धेरै (dherai) denotes more quantity, hence has a meaning of ‘more’ or ‘much’. Sometimes, the meaning can also be ‘a lot of’. It is entirely optional to add the pluralizing ’haru’ after countable nouns … Read more