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This course, covering the full grammar and all contructions of modern Nepali, presents a full description of written and spoken Nepali, enabling students to understand, speak and read most types of Nepali encountered today.
List of contents
Preface, Abbreviations, Pronunciation and script, Lesson 1: nouns; adjectives; cha, ho; possessives; postpositions., Lesson 2: plural forms; plural and negative verbs; questions; greetings; ko, ke; the postposition -ko; polite expressions; -b?ta, -dekhi., Lesson 3: personal pronouns; the verb 'to be'; feminine forms; comparison of adjectives; the particles po, ni, h?y, ta; koh?, keh?., Lesson 4: more postpositions; the oblique case; expressions of time; numeral classifiers; 'to have', rahecha., Lesson 5: verb bases; Simple Indefinite; emphatic forms; Present Continuous. , Lesson 6: negative verbs; the direct object; -Ie; kahile; kat?y; honcha., Lesson 7: fractions; more expressions of time; -tira; -c?h?; ko, koko; compound postpositions; jasto; arko, ar?; the Imperative; re., Lesson 8: Secondary Verbal Base; Simple Past; thiyo; bhayo; days of the week. Lesson 9: I-Stem verbs, open conditions, expressions of price, weight and measure; other forms of the Imperative., Lesson 10: Conjunctive Participles; reported speech; l?gno; parno; expressions of age., Lesson 11: necessity: 'must', 'have to'; ?phno; the Second Infinitive., Lesson 12: First Perfect Participle; more uses of the Second Infinitive; sakesamma., Lesson 13: First Perfect Tense; First Perfect Participle with ta and tara; First Pluperfect Tense; more uses of the Second Infinitive., Lesson 14: Infinitival Participle; bbanne; the Nepali calendar., Lesson 15: Infinitival Participle (cont.); Infinitival Future; Third Infinitive., Lesson 16: Second Perfect Participle; conditional and concessive clauses; pronominal adjectives and adverbs; Second Perfect Tense; Second Pluperfect Tense., Lesson 17: The Injunctive; Future Tense; hol?., Lesson 18: Past Habitual; impossible conditions; causative verbs., Lesson 19: Imperfect Participle; continuous tenses; literary forms of verbs., Lesson 20: Absolutive Participle; frequentative and continuous tenses; compound verbs; 'royal honorific'; -jeI., Appendix 1 The Nepali numerals., Appendix 2 Geographical terms., Appendix 3 Nepali relationship terms., Key to Exercises., Nepali-English Vocabulary.
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David Matthews
Summary
This course, covering the full grammar and all contructions of modern Nepali, presents a full description of written and spoken Nepali, enabling students to understand, speak and read most types of Nepali encountered today.
