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Over the next few lessons we will be focusing on Quantity. Quantity is the amount or number of a material or an immaterial substance. Hence, we will be seeing how to assign quantity words in sentences. Quantity words are only used with nouns. That means, they are used to describe an amount of an object (noun). There … Read more
When you make someone do something, you are causing someone to do an action. It doesn’t necessarily have to be you to make that event. Take the following sentence: Mary made John to make food. Here, a person is making or ‘causing’ a recipient to do an action. In other words, something is making something or someone … Read more
Transitivity is an important aspect of Nepali. While transitivity might not be a prominent part of English (by that meaning noticeable in daily contexts), it definitely ‘is’ for Nepali. Transitivity helps to explain why some things take objects, some don’t, and why the subject sometimes takes the ’le’ particle. So, what is transitivity? Transitivity is … Read more
Can you learn a language by yourself? The answer depends on you, but do you know what is a reflexive pronoun? Notice how the above statement uses the word ‘yourself’. The word ‘yourself’ is a reflexive pronoun. A reflexive pronoun is a pronoun which describes the subject itself. (or so according to its Nepali Definition) In … Read more
You were briefly told about honorific speech in the lesson ’Honorific Speech: Introduction’. As I told, speech depends on the society that speaks it. As such, there are different ways on how to speak to different people. You don’t use the same level of speech when you talk to your friends as to when you … Read more
Verbs are perhaps the most important part of Nepali Language. A whole sentence can be completed by a verb and infact a sentence can have only a verb! Verbs are also one of the most – if not the most – difficult parts on learning Nepali. Did you learn all your basic verbs? That’s cute, … Read more
INTRODUCTION A determiner is a word, phrase or affix that occurs together with a noun or noun phrase and serves to express the reference of that noun or noun phrase in the context. Determiners are words like ‘This’, ‘The’ etc. DETERMINERS IN NEPALI Nepali doesn’t have articles. That means, Nepali lacks ‘a’, ‘an’ and ‘the’ in the Language. When translating to and forth, articles must be added or subtracted … Read more
So you have learnt how to make simple sentences with the right conjugations in the previous chapter, which was published around seven months ago. Let’s learn how to use Agyaat and Habitual Form of Verb! Also, we will learn how ‘Present’ tense is used for ‘future tense’. ____ INTRODUCTION So, you probably know that Nepali is a SUBJECT + OBJECT + … Read more
INTRODUCTION Why is it that I can only give ‘him’ an item and not ‘he’? Why can’t I say ‘you’s’ instead of ‘your’? Pronouns are strange things in many languages, because they are stubborn to change. Similarly in Nepali, ancient sound changes have stubbornly remained, without which this lesson wouldn’t exist. What am I talking … Read more
I baked a cake, so the cake was baked by me.Do you know active and passive voices from those grammar lessons of English? Active voice gives priority to the Subject whereas Passive voice gives priority to the Object. We have something like that in Nepali too. So, in Nepali, we recognize three types of Voices. Voice (like active voice) is called ‘वाच्य’ (baachya) … Read more