✍ Scribed by Clinton B. Seely
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Foreword
Table of Contents
Transliteration scheme
Lesson 1
Types of Bangla
Spelling
Punctuation
Pronunciation
Lesson 2 -- Kolkata
Indefinite, interrogative, & correlative pronouns
"janye," "haye," & "pakse"
Months, seasons, & annual holidays
Lesson 3 -- Dhaka
Indefinites
reduplication of
with "na" between reduplication
with "ar"
with "ye/ya"
"bale"
PAP
conjunction "that"
postposition "as, called"
conjunction "because"
Calendric systems
Lesson 4 -- news
Correlatives
"yena," "yate," & "pache"
to express purpose
to express emphasis in commands
to express desire
to express similarity
to express vagueness
Dates of the month
Lesson 5 -- sports
Verbal noun + locative & "matra"
in locative case
with "matra"
"paryanta" & "abadhi"
Percentage, fractions, base-16 numerals, & arithmetic
Lesson 6 -- dictionary entry
Verbal noun + genitive
with postposition
with following noun
with "ache/nei. nay"
"katha"
Common terms of address & reference
Lesson 7 -- proposal/petition
Emphasis
modifiers
inverted syntax
"i" suffix
lengthened consonants
"o" suffix & "paryanta"
rhetorical interrogatives "ki, kata"
"khan" added to verb
"jana"
Common university & government terminology
Lesson 8 -- national anthems
Reflexive & intensive pronouns
"sabai/sakale" & "sab/sakal"
Political geography
Lesson 9 -- art criticism
Passives
verbal noun + 3rd-person of "haoya"
verbal noun + 3rd-person of "yaoya"
"bale (eke, kake, yake bale)"
"mara yaoya" and passives with "paRa"
"mata"
noun
postposition requiring genitive
suffix
Time of day
Lesson 10 -- welcoming speech
Auxiliary verbs
"asa/yaoya"
"deoya/neoya"
"thaka/ach-"
"oTha, paRa, phela, basa"
"haye" & "hisebe/hisabe"
Kinship terms
Lesson 11 -- a poem
Causative verbs
strengthened stem vowel & double causatives
mock causatives
alternative causative markers
3-"aksara" verbs
Verbs "to be"
Prefixes
Lesson 12 -- encyclopedia entry
Adjectives
with genitive
with suffix
PAP "dekhe"
past passive participle
verbal noun without genitive
verbal noun + genitive
Adverbs
adverb and adverb only
adjectives used as
made from adjectives & nouns
Suffixes
Lesson 13 -- letter writing
Infinitive
reduplicated
reduplicated, separated by "na"
with predicate adjective
"balte"
as conditional conjunctive
Pronouns made from adjectives
Salutations & complimentary closings
Lesson 14 -- jokes
Infinitive + verb (1)
"laga"
Postpositions: optional genitive
Lesson 15 -- advertisements
Infinitive + verb (2)
with "thaka," continual/continuous
with "para, deoya," permission
with "para, paoya," ability
with "nei/nai, ache," obligation
"iye" & "amuk"
Postpositions: required genitive
Lesson 16 -- biographical sketch
Infinitive/verbal noun + verb
Onomatopoeic words
Postpositions: no required case
Lesson 17 -- description of an institution
Objects of compound verbs
Genitive-3rd-person (dative) constructions
Postpositions: with objective case
Lesson 18 -- announcement
Conditional clauses with "yadi"
"ta hale, tabe, to"
tense restriction
"haoya, ach-"
"yadio, yadi-ba"
Conditional conjunctive participle
"ta hale"
with 3rd-person of "haoya"
with 3rd-person of "cala"
with "para"
with "ba~ca"
with "par"
Common expressions
Lesson 19 -- science
Imperatives
with "ge, diki"
with correlative (+ "na kena")
Conjunctions
More common expressions
Lesson 20 -- conversation
The negative
the several negatives
"na" precedes verb
"na" as the conjunction 'or'
"ekta na ekta" meaning 'one or another'
"na" as filler word
either/or, neither/nor, "na hay"
Definite article & numbers
Interjections, expletives, & other emphatics
Answer key
Glossary
Index
Bangla
English
Appendices
Verb conjugations
Pronoun declensions
Numbers
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