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INTRODUCTION Past tense is one of the three tenses in Nepali, used to denote or express actions that happened or occurred in the past. It can also be used to denote a state that existed. Nepali also uses this tense to describe a past habitual action, and to express one’s unawareness of a scenario. In Nepali, … Read more
INTRODUCTION To be or not to be, that is the lesson: whether ’tis nobler in the mind to decipher an important verb in Nepali, or skip it altogether. While I am no Shakespeare, the verb we are about to discuss is of utmost importance, because it helps us define or describe an entity’s properties so … Read more
INTRODUCTION There are several moments when you want to express a thing negatively. Is your latte not as good as expected? Perhaps, you are not hungry? Maybe, you don’t want to go to that restaurant today. Of course, you can always say “Well, this latte is really bad” but maybe, you want to conjugate the verb itself to denote the state. What … Read more
INTRODUCTION Anyone who has read Sun Tzu’s book “The Art of War” cover-to-cover definitely has an idea of how Sun Tzu wrote his ideas down, and although I believe he was not the greatest speaker of modern-day English, one can infer what he was trying to say through his wisdom. We however are not concerned … Read more
INTRODUCTION Many languages across the world express distinction in counting. In English, words that can be counted are either singular or plural; in other languages such as Sanskrit, words can be dual as well (indicating a count of two). Some languages such as Japanese may have optional number marking as well! The category of nouns, pronouns, adjectives and … Read more
Since we learnt how to count till 60, we can tell time now. If you want to know more about the numbers: Numbers: 1-30: Click Here Numbers: 31-60: Click here Now, time telling isn’t very complicated in Nepali. So how do we quote time? First, time telling largely revolves around the verb ‘बज्नु’ (bajnu) which means : to be … Read more
INTRODUCTION You accidentally wake up from a long coma and the first thing you ask is where you are. You ask yourself, how did you end up in the hospital in the first place? Maybe you got hit really hard by a baseball in the stadium? Or perhaps you were on a vacation when a crazy skater struck you from behind by the … Read more
INTRODUCTION Now that we have gone over what case markers are, we shall now look at them one by one and see how they function in a Nepali sentence. As a reminder, case markers appear after the case and are adjoined to the case itself, so instead of saying “in Rome”, you would say “Romein”. The first case marker we … Read more
INTRODUCTION We don’t like a lie, but when I give you one, you are better off taking it on face value, as a lie is a very important thing in Nepali (maybe). The word in Nepali, which is pronounced in the same way as the English synonym for untruth, is लाई (lāī). And this word is important, … Read more
Verbs are about the most important part in any language. It is one of the four Universal Absolutes in Languages (meaning it is found in all languages). Verbs are called ‘क्रियापद’ (kriyapad) in Nepali. Nepali is a verb final language. That means, the verb will always appear in the end. Now, that verb that appears in … Read more