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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.
    Skanthavelu Nadarajah

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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.
    Skanthavelu Nadarajah

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    skanthan: I have made some corrections. You have listed the future tense of several verbs.



    Quote 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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    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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    Quote 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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    Thinnuthal (not thunnu ) is more rash usage
    unnuthal is too rich in vocs

    'saapidu' is the common word used

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    naalvaravu(Welcome)!

    Hello everybody)Shakthi, Lambretta, rajraj etc),

    I always thought that the word "thiN" is usually used when talking about an animal such as a cat, dog, bird or any animal eating and saappidu used when talking about a person eating. Correct me if I am mistaken.. As for uN, I usually saw it used in the word "uNavu(food)". I usually like to use the word "uNavu" instead of "saappaadu", because the first time I said that, it caused a confusion due to its almost frightening similarity to the word "saappidu"!

    I will post the rest of lesson 26 later today.
    Skanthavelu Nadarajah

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    Re: naalvaravu(Welcome)!

    Quote Originally Posted by skanthan
    As for uN, I usually saw it used in the word "uNavu(food)". I usually like to use the word "uNavu" instead of "saappaadu", because the first time I said that, it caused a confusion due to its almost frightening similarity to the word "saappidu"!
    Hello Skanthan!
    Well, uNavu may be right but then unless I'm mistaken its a relatively outdated term, used more in literary tamil rather than conversational, where saapaadu is more widely used.....
    Still, watever is easy for u to rem./conveys the right meaning!

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    Lambretta,
    "uNavu" is a very easy word for me.

    One day, I wanted to say in Tamil that I like Tamil food, and when I try to say it, a dead and I mean "DEAD" silence fell in the room. I think by mistake I said , "naan thamizh saapidu virumbum". Big oops that day. Since then, I use "uNavu/uNavai" to mean food.
    Skanthavelu Nadarajah

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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.
    Skanthavelu Nadarajah

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