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25th January 2006, 05:41 AM
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Learning Tamil, My experiences: continued
vaNakkam!
Welcome to my new Tamil learning thread, "Learning Tamil, My experiences: continued". This thread is a continuation of my old thread, "Learning Tamil, My experiences". This thread will continue where my old thread left off prior to all the nastiness and spams and will run in much the same way as my old thread.
ie: I will post whatever words and phrases I learned on this thread for correction and review along with other queries related to Tamil learning, history of the Tamil script etc.
I look forward to learning Tamil from the members on this forum and to a spam free Tamil learning thread.
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25th January 2006 05:41 AM
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25th January 2006, 10:04 AM
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Since two years, I have not done much Tamil learning, partly because I had not met Shanthi(my asiriyai) much in the last couple of years and so I had been doing it by myself and I did not know where to go from there. Here is the first part of my last lesson. Please make any corrections if necessary. I need help to get back into learning Tamil. ie: motivation. Once one has stopped doing this kind of thing, it is difficult to start again. nanRi.
Lesson 26: Future tense of adhu
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English word - Root - Infinitive - Future Tense of adhu
do - sey - seyya - adhu seyyum
throw - eRi - eRiya - adhu eRiyum
buy - vaangu - vaanga - adhu vaangum
touch - thodu - thoda - adhu thodum
eat - uN - uNNa - adhu uNNum
see - paar - paara - adhu paarum
open - thiRa - thiRakka - adhu thiRakkum
It will wear - adhu udhaiyum
It will go - adhu sellum
It will be - adhu irukkum
It will (???) - adhu peRum (I do not know the meaning of "peRum")
It will like - adhu virumbum
It will die - adhu iRukkum
The bird will build a nest
paRavai oru koodai kattum
This goat will bite you.
idhai aadu neeyai(neengaLai) kadikkum
The flower will bloom
poo pookkum
It will be inside
adhu uLLE irukkum
(To be continued)
The rest of Lesson 26 will be posted in the next post and some other previous lessons which I had not posted will be posted in later posts with future lessons.
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25th January 2006, 10:20 AM
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skanthan: I have made some corrections. You have listed the future tense of several verbs.
Originally Posted by
skanthan
Lesson 26: Future tense of adhu
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** there is no future tense for adhu ; adhu = that **
English word - Root - Infinitive - Future Tense of -----------
see - paar - paara - adhu paarum
**adhu paarkkum**
It will wear - adhu udhaiyum
**adhu aNiyum** or **adhu udai aNiyum**
It will (???) - adhu peRum (I do not know the meaning of "peRum")
**It will receive/get/obtain**
It will die - adhu iRukkum
**adhu iRakkum**
The bird will build a nest
paRavai oru koodai kattum
**paravai oru koottai kattum** or ** paRaVai oru koodu kattum**
This goat will bite you.
idhai aadu neeyai(neengaLai) kadikkum
**indha aadu unnai kadikkum**
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25th January 2006, 01:50 PM
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Just curious about the word 'to eat' in Tamil. is Saapidu more right than Unnu??? How about Tunnu is it a proper Tamil word??
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25th January 2006, 02:30 PM
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Originally Posted by
Chappani
Just curious about the word 'to eat' in Tamil. is Saapidu more right than Unnu??? How about Tunnu is it a proper Tamil word??
unnu, tunnu, etho onnu.....as long as it conveys the rite meaning....!
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25th January 2006, 04:52 PM
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Thinnuthal (not thunnu ) is more rash usage
unnuthal is too rich in vocs
'saapidu' is the common word used
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25th January 2006, 06:04 PM
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25th January 2006, 06:11 PM
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25th January 2006, 06:20 PM
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26th January 2006, 02:25 AM
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Rest of lesson 26.
The calf will be born.
kanRu piRakkum
The wound will heal
puN aaRum
next - aduttha
week - vaaram
year - aandu, varudam, varusham
but - aanaal
however - ???
because - EnenRaal
as a result - adhanaal
therefore - aaga
again - maRubadiyum
Thus ends lesson 26. Lessons 25 and 27 will be posted next.
When I first began my Tamil lessons, Shanthi had asked me what Tamil I want to learn. Pure Tamil, colloquial Tamil, Tamil with Sanskrit words etc.. I told her I want to learn the Tamil which is commonly used and understood by all Tamils. Luckily when she taught me, people were able to understand what I was saying. I always assumed that all Tamil was much the same just with some slightly different ways of talking from place to place. ie: in India they say "aam" to mean "yes" and in Sri Lanka they use "Om" for that same word, but in standard common speech, the word "aam"/"aamaa" will be used to indicate yes.
As a general rule, I believe that when learning any foreign language, it is better to learn the way that all people understand. Regional variations and slangs should be discussed later.
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