Telugu is an agglutinative language with person, tense, case and number being inflected on the end of nouns and verbs. Its word order is usually subject-object-verb, with the direct object following the indirect object. The grammatical function of the words are marked by suffixes that indicate case and postpositions that follow the oblique stem. It is also head-final and a pro-drop language.
The first treatise on Telugu grammar (Telugu: వ్యాకరణం vyākaraṇam), the Andhra Sabda Chintamani (Telugu: ఆంధ్ర శబ్ద చింతామణి Āndhra śabda cintāmaṇi) was written in Sanskrit by Nannayya, who is considered the first poet (ādikavi) and grammarian of the Telugu language, in the 11th century CE.
In the 19th century, Paravastu Chinnaya Suri wrote a simplified work on Telugu grammar called Bāla Vyākaraṇam (lit. Children's grammar), borrowing concepts and ideas from Nannayya, in Telugu.[1]
According to Nannayya, language without 'Niyama' or the language which does not adhere to Vyākaranam is called Grāmya (lit of the village) or Apabhraṃśa, is unfit for literary usage. All literary texts in Telugu follow the Vyākaraṇam.[1]
Nouns
Telugu is more inflected than other literary Dravidian languages. Telugu nouns are inflected for number (singular, plural), gender (masculine and non-masculine) and grammatical case (nominative, accusative, instrumental, dative, ablative, genitive, locative, and vocative).[2]
we can convert verbs and adjectives into nouns by adding suffixes like ika, tanam, rikam, etc
Example :
- verb
ceyu + ika = ceyika(action)
- adjective
manchi + thanam = manchithanam (goodness)
Gender
Telugu has three genders:
- masculine ( puliṅgamu),
- feminine (strī liṅgamu),
- neuter (napunsaka liṅgamu).
In Telugu the occurrence of the suffix (–ḍu) almost always encodes masculine gender. For example:
- tammuḍu (younger brother),
- mukhyuḍu (important man),
- Rāmuḍu (Rāma),
- nāyakuḍu (leader).
However, there are nouns that do not end in (-ḍu) that belong to the masculine class.For example:
- annayya (elder brother),
- māmayya (uncle).
Most of the words ending in -ḍu are borrowings from Sanskrit words ending in -a, and therefore the feminine forms of these words are equivalent to the Sanskrit words.
Masculine | Sanskrit original | Feminine |
---|---|---|
nartakuḍu | nartaka | nartaki |
vācakuḍu | vācaka | vācaki |
premikuḍu | premika | preyasi |
Sometimes, a word ending in -ḍu is feminized by adding the suffix -ālu to the root. The -a ending of the root becomes -ur. This phenomenon is known as the rugāgama sandhi.
Masculine | Sanskrit original | Feminine |
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nartakuḍu | nartaka | nartakurālu |
priyuḍu | priya | priyurālu |
bhaktuḍu | bhakta | bhakturālu |
Neuter-gendered words usually contain the suffix -amu. This suffix descends from the Old Telugu suffix -ambu and is increasingly losing the final -u to become -aṁ. These neuter words are often borrowed from Sanskrit words ending in -a or -u. The final -a usually becomes -amu, and the final -u becomes -uvu.
Sanskrit original | Telugu |
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ākāśam | ākāśamu |
madhu | madhuvu |
However, Telugu sometimes uses the same forms for singular feminine and neuter genders – the third person pronoun (అది /ad̪i/) is used to refer to animals and objects.[3]
Number (vachanam)
Anything with quantity one is singular (ekavachanam). Anything more than one in number is called plural (bahuvachanam), as in English. Formation of the plural stem, however, is relatively complicated, although the ending is centered on variants -lu or -ḷu.
In Telugu the plural is also used to as an honorific. Some nouns are always plural and some are always singular. For example, water (neellu) is always plural.
God (bhagavantudu), sun (suryudu), earth (bhūmi), and moon (chandrudu) are always singular form.
Plural formation
Rule | Telugu | English | Notes | Exceptions | |
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Singular | Plural | ||||
0 | āvu | āvulu | cow | No modification of the stem, and variant -lu is used. |
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1 | cōṭu | cōṭḷu | crore | Vowels in -ṭ[i/u], -ṇṭ[i/u], or -ṇḍ[i/u] in the singular is deleted, and variant -ḷu is used. Forms in -ṇḍḷu varies with -ḷḷu, used in western and eastern dialects, respectively. | |
paṇḍu | paṇḍḷu paḷḷu |
fruit | |||
2 | kālu | kāḷḷu | leg | -ḍ[i/u], -l[i/u], or -r[i/u] (-li or -ri are limited to nouns with at least 3 syllables) in the singular are replaced by -ḷḷu. Some instances of -ḷḷu have alternative form -rlu. |
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pēru | pēḷḷu pērlu |
name |
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3 | guḍḍu | guḍḷu | egg | -ṭṭ[i/u] and -ḍḍ[i/u] in the singular change into -ṭ- and -ḍ- before variant -ḷu. | |
4 | illu | iṇḍḷu iḷḷu |
house | -llu and -nnu in the singular are replaced by -ṇḍḷu or -ḷḷu. |
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5 | pustakam | pustakālu | book | -[a/ā]m and -em in the singular are replaced by -ā- and -ē- before variant -lu. | |
6 | abbāy(i) | abbāy(i)lu | son, boy | The vowel in -yi- is sometimes deleted, and variant -lu is used. | |
7 | cēyi ceyyi |
cētulu | hand | -(y)yi in the singular is replaced by -tulu, and the vowel preceding -yyi becomes long after pluralization (ceyyi → cētulu). |
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8 | pilli | pillulu | cat | The vowel -i- is replaced by -u-, and the variant -lu is used. In native nouns with more than three syllables, all instances of -i- is ablauted to -u-. |
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maniṣi | manuṣulu | person |
Case (విభక్తి vibhakti)
A Grammar of Modern Telugu by Krishnamurti and Gwynn (1985), which focuses on a grammatical description of modern spoken Telugu rather than classical literary Telugu, presents a simple analysis of grammatical case, in comparison with classical Telugu:
Only the nominative, genitive, accusative, and dative cases are regularly used, and the locative case is formed using the suffixes -lō, -lōpala which were originally placed in the Genitive case by traditional grammarians to fit into the Sanskrit case scheme. The instrumental+sociative case suffix is -tō (while classical has -cēn/-cētan for instrumental and -tōn/-tōḍan for sociative); the colloquial suffixes for ablative case are -nuṇḍi/-nuñci. Ablative case is also used for comparative statements in colloquial Telugu, for which the suffixes are -kaṇṭe/-kannā. Another usage of ablative case is to indicate 'because of' noun, where the suffix -valla (classical -valanan) is used. The benefactive suffixes in classical (-koṟakun/-kai) are completely replaced by -kōsam in modern colloquial Telugu. The genitive form of a noun is defaulted to its oblique stem, i.e., oblique stem of a noun serves as its genitive case by default, though an explicit suffix -yokka is used in formal contexts (refer to oblique stem formation below).
The accusative case suffix is -ni/-nu, with the former always used after final syllables containing -i-, and the latter elsewhere but freely varies with -ni. The intervening vowel is sometimes deleted between -ḍ-, -l-, -n-, -ṇ-, -r- and the suffix, e.g. mimmala "you (plural) + -ni → mimmalni, vāḍi "him" + -ni → vāṇṇi (*-ḍni → -ṇṇi).
In neuter nouns, the nominative singular ending -am changes before the accusative and dative case suffixes, such that the combined forms of these endings are neuter accusative singular -ānni (← *-ānini) and neuter dative singular -āniki.[5]
Case | Suffix | Example |
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Dative | -ki/-ku | అతను బడికి వెళ్తాడు
Atanu baḍiki veḷtāḍu He goes to school |
Accusative | -ni/-nu | అతను అబ్బాయిని చూస్తాడు
Atanu abbāyini cūstāḍu He sees the boy |
Sociative + Instrumental | -tō | అతను కుక్కతో ఆడుకుంటాడు
Atanu kukkatō āḍukuṇṭāḍu He plays with the dog అతను చేతితో రాస్తున్నాడు Atanu cētitō rāstunnāḍu He is writing using hand |
Ablative | -nuṇḍi/-nuñci ('from')
-kaṇṭē/-kannā (comparative) -valla ('because of') |
అతను ఇంటినుండి బయలుదేరాడు
Atanu iṇṭinuṇḍi bayaludērǣḍu He set out from school అతనికంటే నేను పొడుగు Atanikaṇṭē nēnu poḍugu I am taller than him అతనివల్ల నేను ఓడిపొయ్యాను Atanivalla ōḍipoyyǣnu I have lost because of him |
Locative | -lō/lōpala | అతను గదిలో ఉన్నాడు
Atanu gadilō unnāḍu He is in the room |
Oblique stem formation
Formation of the oblique stem, also usually but not always the same as the genitive (by default homophonous unless noted), is relatively complicated just like pluralization. The plural oblique stem, however, is either -la or -ḷa.
Class | Telugu | English | Notes | |
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Nominative | Oblique | |||
A | ceṭṭu | ceṭṭu- | tree | No change. |
B | kālu | kāli- | leg | Human nouns ending in -ḍu, -lu, -nu, or -ru (including a few non-human nouns ending in -lu or -ru) replace -u with -i. |
C | gūḍu | gūṭi- | tree | Non-human nouns ending in -ḍ[i/u], -l[i/u], -r[i/u] replace the endings with -ṭi. |
D | illu | iṇṭi- | house | Only limited to nouns cannu "breast", illu "house", kannu "eye", oḷḷu "body", pannu "teeth", and villu "bow". |
kannu | kaṇṭi- | eye | ||
E | cēyi ceyyi |
cēti- | hand | Only limited to nouns cēyi "hand", gōyi "pit", nēyi "ghee", nūyi "well", rāyi "stone", gorru "hearth", and Parru, all of them except the last three show variation between -V̄yi vs. -Vyyi. |
gorru | gorti | hearth | ||
F | kalam | kalāni- | pen | All nouns ending in -am replace the ending with -āni, although the genitive is homophonous with nominative instead of the oblique stem. |
Sentence Structure
Telugu word order tends to be subject–object–verb. It is head-final - the head follows its complements. Since Telugu is a pro-drop language, the subject can be omitted as the verb already marks person and number.
రాముడు
Rāmuḍu
Ram
SUBJECT
బడికి
baḍiki
to school
OBJECT
వెళ్తాడు.
veḷtāḍu
goes.
VERB
Ram goes to school.
అతను
Atanu
He
SUBJECT
కుక్కను
kukkanu
the dog
OBJECT
చూస్తాడు
cūstāḍu
sees
VERB
He sees the dog
Sandhi or joining
Sandhi is the fusion of sounds across word boundaries and the alteration of sounds due to neighboring sounds or due to the grammatical function of adjacent words.
Telugu sandhis can be divided into native ones and those derived from Sanskrit ones.
Sanskrit Sandhis
These sandhis usually take place when the two words undergoing Sandhi are words borrowed from Sanskrit.
Savarṇadīrghasandhi (Vowel lengthening)
The savarṇadīrgha sandhi, from Sanskrit savarṇa 'same sound' and dīrgha 'long', this sandhi takes place when the first word ends in the same vowel that the second word starts with. The two vowels join to form one long vowel.
Initial word | Final word | Result |
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deva | ālayamu | dēvālayamu |
pārvati | īśvaruḍu | pārvatīśvaruḍu |
aṇu | utpatti | aṇūtpatti |
Guṇasandhi (Vowel raising)
The guṇasandhi takes place when a word final -a is followed by either -i, -u or -r̥. The sandhi yields -ē, -ō and -ar respectively. -ē, -ō and -ar are collectively called the guṇas, hence the name.
Initial word | Final word | Result |
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mahā | indra | mahēndra |
dhana | utpatti | dhanōtpatti |
dēva | r̥ṣi | dēvarṣi |
Vr̥ddhisandhi (Diphthongization)
The vr̥ddhisandhi, from Sanskrit vr̥ddhi-, 'growth', takes place when a word final -a is followed by -ē or -ai, -ō or -au, and -ar or -ār, and yields -ai, -au and -ār respectively. -ai, -au and -ār are collectively called the vr̥ddhis, hence the name.
Initial word | Final word | Result |
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vasudha | ēka | vasudhaika |
mahā | aikyata | mahaikyata |
vīra | ōjassu | vīraujassu |
divya | auṣadhamu | divyauṣadhamu |
Yaṇādēśasandhi (Glide insertion)
The yaṇādēśasandhi takes place when word final -i, -u or -r̥ is followed by a non-similar vowel. The sandhi yields either -y-, -v- or -r- respectively. These are known as the yaṇās.
Initial word | Final word | Result |
---|---|---|
ati | āśa | atyāśa |
su | āgatamu | svāgatamu |
pitr̥ | ājña | pitrājña |
Native sandhis
These sandhis usually occur when one or both of the words is a native Telugu word, or is a Sanskrit borrowing that is treated as such (ex. iṣṭamu).
Akārasandhi (Elision of a)
This sandhi occurs when a word final -a is followed by any vowel. The word final -a is removed, and the following vowel takes its place.
Initial word | Final word | Result |
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iṅkā | ēṇṭi | iṅkēṇṭi |
puṭṭina | illu | puṭṭinillu |
amma | aṇṭē | ammaṇṭē |
teliyaka | uṇḍenu | teliyakuṇḍenu |
Ikārasandhi
This sandhi occurs when a word final -i is followed by any vowel. The word final -i is removed, and the following vowel takes its place.
Initial word | Final word | Result |
---|---|---|
mari | eppuḍu | mareppuḍu |
vāḍi | illu | vāḍillu |
ēmi | aṇṭivi | ēmaṇṭivi |
ēmi | a(y)inadi | ēma(y)inadi |
ēmi | undi | ēmundi |
Ukārasandhi
This sandhi occurs when a word final -u is followed by any vowel. The word final -u is removed, and the following vowel takes its place.
Initial word | Final word | Result |
---|---|---|
ceppu | iṅkā | ceppiṅkā |
vāḍu | evaḍu | vāḍevaḍu |
nīḷlu | unnāyā | nīḷlunnāyā |
vāḍu | annāḍu | vāḍannāḍu |
Trikasandhi
One of the most complicated of the sandhis, the trikasandhi is of two forms:
- When a final -ā -ī or -ē is followed by a non-clustered consonant, the vowel is shortened, and the unclustered consonant is geminated.
- When the word mūḍu (three) is followed by a consonant, the word-final -ḍu is eliminated. This triggers the first rule of the trikasandhi, and the now-word-final -ū is shortened, and the following consonant is geminated. When the consonant is l-, sometimes it is geminated to -ḷḷ- instead.
Initial word | Final word | Result |
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ī | kālamu | ikkālamu |
ē | cōṭu | eccōṭu |
ā | bhaṅgi | abbaṅgi |
mūḍu | lōkamulu | mullōkamulu |
mūḍu | kōṭi | mukkōṭi |
Āmrēḍitasandhi
This sandhi deals with repeated words, i.e., pairs of same words. This sandhi forms some of the most used irregular-looking words in the language. It has three rules:
- When a vowel-initial word is repeated, the final vowel of the first word is eliminated.
- Word final forms of ka (ka, ki, ku, ke, etc.) of the first word are eliminated and the first rule is applied.
- The andādi words (anduku, iggulu, tumuru, tuniyalu, etc.) when compounded lead to irregular forms.
Word | Result |
---|---|
aura | auraura |
endun | endendun |
appaṭiki | appaṭappaṭiki |
ūran | ūrūran |
ceduru | cellāceduru |
iggulu | iṟṟiggulu |
Dviruktaṭakārasandhi
Sometimes regarded as a form of the āmrēḍitasandhi, the dviruktaṭakārasandhi occurs when kaḍādi (kaḍa, naḍuma, madhyāhnamu, bayalu, etc.) words are compounded. A dviruktaṭakāra, a geminated -ṭṭ- forms from this sandhi, hence the name.
Initial word | Final word | Result |
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madhyāhnamu | madhyāhnamu | miṭṭamadhyāhnamu |
pagalu | pagalu | paṭṭapagalu |
naḍuma | iṇṭlō | naṭṭiṇṭlō |
Gasaḍadavādēśasandhi
- Trika Sandhi.
- Dugagama Sandhi.
- Saraladesha Sandhi
- Gasadadavadesha Sandhi.
- Rugagama Sandhi.
- Yadagama Sandhi.
- Prathametara Vibhakti Sandhi.
- Uchadadi sandhi.
Samasam or nominal compounds
Samasam or samasa occurs with various structures, but morphologically speaking they are essentially the same: each noun (or adjective) is in its (weak) stem form, with only the final element receiving case inflection.
Some of the Telugu samasams are:
- Tatpuruṣa Samasam.
- Prathama tatpurusha samasam
- Dvitiya tatpurusha samasam
- Trutiya tatpurusha samasam
- Chaturthi tatpurusha samasam
- Panchami tatpurusha samasam
- Shashti tatpurusha samasam
- Saptami tatpurusha samasam
- Nai tatpurusha samasam
- Karmadhāraya Samasam.
- Viśeshana purwapada karmadharaya samasam
- Viśeshana uttarapada karmadharaya samasam
- Viśeshana ubhayapada karmadharaya samasam
- Upamana purvapada karmadharaya samasam
- Upamana uttarapada karmadharaya samasam
- Avadharana purvapada karmadharaya samasam
- Sambhavana purvapada karmadharaya samasam
- Dvigu Samasam.
- Dvandva Samasam.
- Bahuvrīhi Samasam.
- Amredita Samasam.
- Avyayībhāva Samasam
Alankaram or ornamentation
Telugu Alankaram is a figure of speech which means ornaments or embellishments which are used to enhance the beauty of the poems. There are two types of Alankarams, 'Shabdalankaram' which primarily focuses on Sound and 'Arthalamkaram' which focuses on meaning. These two alankarams are further broken down in to different categories.[7] shabdalankaras are 6 types where as there are nearly 30 to 40 types in ardhalankaras.
- Shabdalankaram
- Vruttyanuprasa
- Chekanuprasa
- Latanuprasa
- antyanuprasa
- Yamakam
- Mukta pada grastam
- Arthalamkaram
- Upamanaalankaram
- Utprekshaalankaram
- Rupakaalankaram
- Shleshalankaram
- Arthantaranyaasam
- Atishayokti
- Drushtantam
- Swabhavokti
- vyajastu
- virodhi
- vishamamu
- parikaramu
- branti madala
- kramalam
Chandassu or Telugu prosody
Metrical poetry in Telugu is called 'Chandassu' or 'Chandas'. ya-maa-taa-raa-ja-bhaa-na-sa-la-gam is called the chandassu chakram. Utpalamala, Champakamala, Mattebha vikreeditham, Sardoola Vikreeditham, Kanda, Aata veladi, Theta geethi, Sragdhara, Bhujangaprayata, etc. are some metrics used in Telugu poetry.
Verbs
Although the morphological (grammatical) structure of Telugu verbs is quite evidently complex and complicated, the basic conjugation of subject person and number endings in modern spoken Telugu is in fact rather straightforward:
Past tense
Past tense | Past tense negative | |
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1st person singular నేను nēnu |
వెళ్ళాను
veḷḷānu |
వెళ్ళలేదు veḷḷalēdu I didn't go |
2nd person singular నువ్వు nuvvu |
వెళ్ళావు
veḷḷāvu |
వెళ్ళలేదు veḷḷalēdu You didn't go |
3rd person singular masculine అతను atanu |
వెళ్ళాడు
veḷḷāḍu |
వెళ్ళలేదు veḷḷalēdu He didn't go |
3rd person singular feminine/neuter ఆమె āme |
వెళ్ళింది
veḷḷindi |
వెళ్ళలేదు veḷḷalēdu She didn't go |
1st person plural మేము mēmu |
వెళ్ళాము
veḷḷāmu |
వెళ్ళలేదు veḷḷalēdu We didn't go |
2nd person plural మీరు mīru |
వెళ్ళారు
veḷḷāru |
వెళ్ళలేదు veḷḷalēdu You (plural) didn't go |
3rd person plural masculine/feminine వారు vāru |
వెళ్ళారు
veḷḷāru |
వెళ్ళలేదు veḷḷalēdu They (masc./fem.) didn't go |
3rd person plural neuter అవి avi |
వెళ్లాయి
veḷlāyi |
వెళ్ళలేదు veḷḷalēdu They (neuter) didn't go |
The vowel -ā- is pronounced as /æː/, except in some verbs. In the verbs an- "to say", kan- "to buy", kon- "to bring forth", kūrcun- "to be seated", nilcun- "to stand", tin- " to eat", un- "to be", and vin- " to hear", -nā (with /aː/) is used instead.
Present tense
Present tense | Present tense negative | |
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1st person singular నేను nēnu |
వెళ్తున్నాను
veḷtunnānu I am going |
వెళ్లట్లేదు
veḷlaṭlēdu I am not going |
2nd person singular నువ్వు nuvvu |
వెళ్తున్నావు
veḷtunnāvu You are going |
వెళ్లట్లేదు
veḷlaṭlēdu You aren't going |
3rd person singular masculine అతను atanu |
వెళ్ళుతున్నాడు
veḷḷutunnāḍu He is going |
వెళ్లట్లేదు
veḷlaṭlēdu He isn't going |
3rd person singular feminine/neuter ఆమె āme |
వెళ్తోంది
veḷtōndi She is going |
వెళ్లట్లేదు
veḷlaṭlēdu She isn't going |
1st person plural మేము mēmu |
వెళ్తున్నాము
veḷtunnāmu We are going |
వెళ్లట్లేదు
veḷlaṭlēdu We aren't going |
2nd person plural మీరు mīru |
వెళ్తున్నారు
veḷtunnāru You (plural) are going |
వెళ్లట్లేదు
veḷlaṭlēdu You (plural) aren't going |
3rd person plural masculine/feminine వారు vāru |
వెళ్తున్నారు
veḷtunnāru They (masc./fem.) are going |
వెళ్లట్లేదు
veḷlaṭlēdu They (masc./fem.) aren't going |
3rd person plural neuter అవి avi |
వెళ్తున్నాయి
veḷtunnāyi They (neuter) are going |
వెళ్లట్లేదు
veḷlaṭlēdu They (neuter) aren't going |
Future tense
Future tense | Future tense negative | |
---|---|---|
1st person singular నేను nēnu |
వెళ్తాను
veḷtānu I will go |
వెళ్ళను
veḷḷanu I won't go |
2nd person singular నువ్వు nuvvu |
వెళ్తావు
veḷtāvu You will go |
వెళ్లవు
veḷlavu You won't go |
3rd person singular masculine అతను atanu |
వెళ్తాడు
veḷtāḍu He will go |
వెళ్ళడు
veḷḷaḍu He won't go |
3rd person singular feminine/neuter ఆమె āme |
వెళ్తుంది
veḷtundi She will go |
వెళ్ళదు
veḷḷadu She won't go |
1st person plural మేము mēmu |
వెళ్తాము
veḷtāmu We will go |
వెళ్ళము
veḷḷamu We won't go |
2nd person plural మీరు mīru |
వెళ్తారు
veḷtāru You (plural) will go |
వెళ్ళరు
veḷḷaru You (plural) won't go |
3rd person plural masculine/feminine వారు vāru |
వెళ్తారు
veḷtāru They (masc./fem.) will go |
వెళ్ళరు
veḷḷaru They (masc./fem.) won't go |
3rd person plural neuter అవి avi |
వెళ్తాయి
veḷtāyi They (neuter) will go |
వెళ్ళదు
veḷḷadu They (neuter) won't go |
Imperative
Informal | Formal | Informal negative | Formal negative |
---|---|---|---|
వెళ్ళు
veḷḷu Go |
వెళ్ళండి
veḷḷaṇḍi Go (formal) |
వెళ్ళకు
veḷḷaku Don't go |
వెళ్ళకండి
veḷḷakaṇḍi Don't go (formal) |
See also
- Telugu language
- Telugu literature
- Telugu people
- Telugu development
- Satavahana Dynasty
- Sanskrit grammar
- Sanskrit pronouns and determiners
References
- ^ a b Gopavaram, Padmapriya; Subrahmanyam, Korada (2011). "1". A Comparative Study Of Andhrasabdachintamani And Balavyakaranam. Hyderabad: University of Hyderabad.
- ^ Charles Philip Brown (1857). A grammar of the Telugu language (2 ed.). Christian Knowledge Society's Press.
- ^ Charles Philip Brown (1857). A grammar of the Telugu language (2 ed.). Christian Knowledge Society's Press. p. 39.
- ^ Krishnamurti & Gwynn 1985, pp. 51–56
- ^ Krishnamurti & Gwynn 1985, pp. 85–97
- ^ a b Krishnamurti; Gwynn (1985). A Grammar of Modern Telugu. pp. 163–166.
- ^ Gopavaram, Padmapriya; Subrahmanyam, Korada (2011). A Comparative Study Of Andhrasabdachintamani And Balavyakaranam. Hyderabad: University of Hyderabad.
- ^ Krishnamurti & Gwynn 1985, p. 138.