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Lesson 1:
Basic Expressions
- Tip: Pronunciation
- Vocabulary 1: Greetings and Parting Expressions
- Culture: Greetings
- Sentence Builder: Greetings and Parting Expressions
- Vocabulary 2: Friendly Expressions
- Culture: Sun and Moon
- Sentence Builder: Friendly Expressions
- Vocabulary 3: Other Basic Expressions
- Culture: Expressing Thanks
- Matching: Other Basic Expressions
- Grammar: Personal Pronouns
- Matching: Personal Pronouns
- Grammar: Expressing "To Be"
- Fill In: Expressing "To Be"
- Conversation: Jalan atthirari anni!
- Go Further: New Vocabulary
- Sentence Builder: Dialogue Practice
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New Vocabulary
Let’s take a look at the new words and forms you saw in this dialogue.
You may have noticed some new words in that dialogue. Any time new words are introduced in a dialogue, we’ll highlight them in these Take It Further sections.
You just saw two new words for people:
| chiori (a.n.) | woman |
| mahrazh (a.n.) | man |
You also saw the word chiorikem, which means wife. Chiorikem is often shortened to chiori, making it the same word as the word meaning woman. You’ll see more words for family members and other people in Lesson 2.
Here are some other important new words from the dialogue:
| ma | and |
| kifindirgi | why |
| akka | too, also |
| sekke | very |
| ajjin | right now |
| azho (i.n.) | gift |
Finally, you also saw a few future forms – adothrak (I will ride), adavrae (will be good) – and a new noun case – khalasaraan (for the khalasar).
For now, just memorize these as individual expressions; we’ll demonstrate how these verb and noun forms are formed in later lessons.