ꠗꠞꠣ

Sylheti

Etymology

Inherited from Sanskrit धरत (dharata). Cognate to Assamese ধৰ (dhor), Bengali ধরা (dhora), Odia ଧରିବା (dharibā).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d̪ɔ́ɾa/

Verb

ꠗꠞꠣ • (dóra)

1. to catch

   ꠛꠟ ꠅꠉꠥ ꠗꠞꠤ ꠟꠣꠁꠍꠔ ꠘꠤ?

   bol ogu dóri laisót ni?

   Have you caught the ball?

Conjugation

Impersonal of ꠗꠞꠣ

Stem	ꠗꠞ dór
Gerund	ꠗꠞꠣ dóra
Infinitive	ꠗꠞꠣ dóra
Goal	ꠗꠞꠣꠞ ꠟꠣꠉꠤ dórar lagi
Agentive	ꠗꠞꠞꠣ ♂, ꠗꠞꠞꠤ ♀ dórra ♂, dórri ♀
Converb	ꠗꠞꠔꠦ dórte
Progressive participle	ꠗꠞꠔꠦ ꠗꠞꠔꠦ dórte dórte
Conditional participle	ꠗꠞꠟꠦ dórle
Perfect participle	ꠗꠞꠤꠀ dória
Habitual participle	ꠗꠞꠤ ꠗꠞꠤ dóri dóri

Conjugation of ꠗꠞꠣ

Person	First person	Second person			Third person
		Very faml. & Inferior	Familiar	Honorific		Familiar
Singular	ꠀꠝꠤ/ꠝꠥꠁ ami/mui	ꠔꠥꠁ tui	ꠔꠥꠝꠤ tumi	ꠀꠙꠘꠦ afne	ꠔꠣꠁꠘ tain	ꠢꠦ ♂, ꠔꠣꠁ ♀ he ♂, tai ♀
Plural	ꠀꠝꠞꠣ amra	ꠔꠥꠝꠞꠣ tumra	ꠔꠥꠝꠤꠔꠣꠁꠘ tumitain	ꠀꠙꠘꠣꠞꠣ/ꠀꠙꠘꠣꠁꠘꠔꠦ afnara/afnainte	ꠔꠣꠁꠘꠔꠣꠁꠘ taintain	ꠔꠣꠞꠣ tara
Present
Imperfective	ꠗꠞꠤ dóri	ꠗꠞꠌ dóros	ꠗꠞꠧ dóro	ꠗꠞꠂꠘ dóroin		ꠗꠞꠦ dóre
Continuous	*ꠗꠞꠤꠀꠞ / *ꠗꠞꠤ ꠞꠣꠝ / *ꠗꠞꠤꠔ ꠞꠣꠝ *dóriar / *dóri ram / *dórit ram	ꠗꠞꠞꠦ / ꠗꠞꠞꠦ dórre	ꠗꠞꠞꠣꠄ dórrae	ꠗꠞꠞꠣ dórra		ꠗꠞꠦꠞ dórer
Perfective	ꠗꠞꠍꠤ dórsi	ꠗꠞꠍꠌ dórsos	ꠗꠞꠍꠧ dórso	ꠗꠞꠍꠂꠘ dórsoin		ꠗꠞꠍꠦ dórse
Past
Recent	ꠗꠞꠟꠣꠝ dórlam	ꠗꠞꠟꠦ dórle	ꠗꠞꠟꠣꠄ dórlae	ꠗꠞꠟꠣ dórla		ꠗꠞꠟꠧ dórlo
Distant	ꠗꠞꠍ꠆ꠟꠣꠝ dórslam	ꠗꠞꠍ꠆ꠟꠦ dórsle	ꠗꠞꠍ꠆ꠟꠣꠄ dórslae	ꠗꠞꠍ꠆ꠟꠣ dórsla		ꠗꠞꠍꠤꠟ dórsil
Continuous	ꠗꠞꠣꠔ ꠀꠍꠟꠣꠝ dórat aslam	ꠗꠞꠣꠔ ꠀꠍꠟꠦ dórat asle	ꠗꠞꠣꠔ ꠀꠍꠟꠣꠄ dórat aslae	ꠗꠞꠣꠔ ꠀꠍꠟꠣ dórat asla		ꠗꠞꠣꠔ ꠀꠍꠤꠟ dórat asil
Future
Indicative	ꠗꠞꠝꠥ dórmu	ꠗꠞꠛꠦ dórbe	ꠗꠞꠛꠣꠄ dórbae	ꠗꠞꠛꠣ dórba		ꠗꠞꠛꠧ dórbo
Others
Imperative	—	ꠗꠞ dór	ꠗꠞꠧ dóro	ꠗꠞꠃꠇꠇꠣ dóroukka		{{{imp-3}}} {{{imp-3-tr}}}
❋ Note 1: * = Dialectal
❋ Note 2: Sylheti is an ergative language. So the 3rd person nouns get the ergative suffix ꠄ (e), which is written with the vowel diacritic ꠦ (e) after a consonant.
❋ Note 3: There are many dialects of Sylheti. This is just one of those.
❋ Note 4: Click here to see other personal pronouns with grammatical cases.