It’s been a while since I posted on grammar on here.
I have been doing grammar though; I’ve been working through Hanne-Ruth Thompson’s Essential Everyday Bengali (দরকারি সাধারণ বাংলা) . It’s highly recommended. Actually, I even learned from seeing the title of the book written in Bangla. দরকারি is the adjective from দরকার meaning need. And I’m more used to সাধারণত meaning usually, than সাধারণ meaning usual. So we could say দরকারি সাধারণ বাংলা could be translated Necessary, Usual Bengali. Well, that doesn’t sound as good as Essential Everyday Bengali. Anyhow, back to the use of থাকা. We have studied the use of the infinitive + থাকা in the Facebook group. It’s a useful way of talking about keeping on doing something. This construction is also good practice for using the infinitive.
Here are some common infinitives taken from P. 45 Everyday Essential Bengali. These will be used in the sentences.
করতে from করা to do
থাকতে from থাকা to stay
চালাতে from চালা to move
শুতে from শোয়া to lie down
উঠতে from ওঠা to get up
লাগতে from লাগা to stick
হতে from হওয়া to become
যেতে from যাওয়া to go
দিতে from দেওয়া to give
আসতে from আসা to stay
পেতে from পাওয়া to get
পড়তে from পড়া to study
বলতে from বলা to say
So here are some examples –
তুমি ব্যাকরণ পড়তে থাক! Keep on studying grammar!
সে সারাদিন একই বই পড়তে থাকে। He keeps on reading the same book all day long.
আমরা সারারাত কাপড় ধুতে থাকি । We keep washing clothes the whole night long.
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Should there be a একি (‘same’) in the sentence সে সারাদিন বই পড়তে থাকে।?
No, unless it was missing in this example – সে সারাদিন খবরের কাগজ পড়তে থাকে. That was translated by ‘the same newspaper’ – I will ask if it was missing there, in which case I think you are right.
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” tanSEN was bengali my dear friend, so were a lot of other people! want to see the entire list as it stands today? so was subash chandra bose and sri aurobindo :)
and i can name a million others and i am proud to say our greateness can be exerted beyond our national borders. we are the fifth largest speakers!
we bengalis have won pretty much every award in the world stage you name it we have it and we are damn proud of what we have :) its the only country in the world which took rebellion because it couldn’t speak its mother tongue and it won! and won so hard that the UN had to adopt that day as the international language day, which celebrates languages from all over the world. ”
KAMONASISH AAYUSH MAZUMDAR
MBA (2013), IMT Ghaziabad
Bengaluru, Karnataka
hometown: Kolkata, WB
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