Download Gojri Book

 

sc  ‘true’  scai

scyai 

‘truth’


{-awt} usually added to the inflectional adjective stems
 

skh

‘generous’ 

skhawt 

‘generosity’


{-gi} usually added to the inflectional adjective stems.
 

sado 

‘simple’ sadgi  ‘simplicity’

tajo 

‘fresh’ 

tajgi 

‘freshness’


{-E)wo} usually added to the inflected adjective stems.
 

suthro 

‘beautiful,

 suthrE)wo  ‘beauty,  neatness’

neat’

mdro 

‘dwarf’ 

mdrwo 

‘dwarfness’


{-pn} added to the masculine adjective and noun so derived is also masculine.
 

cngo 

‘good’

cngop

‘goodness’

b

‘big, great’

bop ‘greatness’

nilo 

‘green’ 

nilop

‘greenness’


{-pUo} added usually to non-inflecting adjectives.
 

lU  

‘wicked’ 

lUpU

‘wickedness’

sfed 

‘white’ 

sfedpU

‘whiteness’


C. Nouns Dervied From Verbs
 

There are suffixes such as -and, -i, -ai, -u, -f, -no, etc. added to the verbal stem to form the nouns of various types. These are described below:
 

{-and} added to the verbal stem to form the noun belonging to feminine gender. For example :
 

c

‘graze’ 

crand 

‘pasture’


{-i} and {-ai} suffixes are added to the verbal stem to form the action nouns and these derived nouns belongs to feminine gender. {-ai} is added to the monosyllabic verbal stem and {-i} is added to the other varbal stems.
 

Examples are :
 

gll- 

‘ruminate’ 

glli 

‘rumination’

do

‘run’  dai  ‘race’

p

‘read’ ’

pai  ‘study


{-u} added to the verbal root to form masculine nouns {-u} action. For example:
 

jj- 

‘swing’

cÙjju 

‘the act of swiniging’


{-Ø} There are also certain abstract nouns formed by zero suffix from the verbal stem and in such derived nouns there may or may not be some alternation. These derived nouns are masculine as well as feminine in gender. Examples are :
 

‘quarrel’

kÒ(mas) 

‘quarrel,

 fighting’

ţk¡

‘collide’

kr (fem) 

‘collission’


{-ar} added to some verbal roots to form the nouns belonging to feminine gender. Examples are :
 

khng

‘cough’’

khngar  ‘phlegm

cInk 

‘cry’

cInkar 

‘crying’


{-no} added to the verbal stem to form the noun instrument used for the action denoted by the source verb and such noun is masculine is gender. E.g.
 

ţer  ‘wrap the  ţerno  ‘an instrument to wrap 
thread’ the thread’


{a-} is added to the verbal infinitive stem and this can take the suffixes of both the genders. Nouns so

 

 
Gojri Index Page
 
FeedBack | Contact Us | Home
ciil grammar footer