My goal

This site is for myself before anybody else - Sri Lankan Muslim Tamil is my cultural identity. It's the first language I learned, and I find it a shame that I can't speak it anymore.

Yo puedo hablar espanol casi como un latino but I can't speak my own mother tongue?! !Que ridiculo!

So I'm going to try and change that while I'm here in Sri Lanka. You're welcome to go along for the ride, or give me tips/corrections if you are from this part of the world.

DISCLAIMER: this is not pure Tamil. I'm not trying to learn that. I'm trying to learn what my parents spoke as children. That's all.

Sunday, June 19, 2011

The Other Verb Forms

You'll need to modify the "he" forms in the previous post to become "You" and "He" and "She" and "We" forms.

EXCEPTION: In our dialect, in the Past Tense, the "he" Form suffices for all other subjects. In other words, no matter who said it, "senna" works.

Here's how you do it:
"You": -Ingal
"He": -Aar
"She": -A
"We": -Om
"They": -Aangal

Attach this suffix to the "he" Form, replacing the "-a", and you have your new verb!

Examples:
WE DO "he does" seyyira --> drop the -a --> add the -om --> seyyirom

WE SAID "he said" senna = senna "we said" (it's the same for past tense in our dialect)

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