Talk:Bengali grammar

message: For this article I am drawing heavily from William Radice's superb book Teach Yourself Bengali (listed as a reference). I strongly recommend it for anyone wishing to learn Bengali. — Knowledge Seeker দ 05:58, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: William Radice's ''Teach Yourself Bengali''

message: Since this did not exist, I constructed this table as best as I could from the previous templates.  Please excuse any mistakes (especially with 'tui' since I rarely hear the very familiar at home). I'm a native born American and only learned Bengali from my parents, and only use it with them.  Hopefully someone with more knowledge can come in, add actual bengali text and fine tune the transliterations.
Also, what about the complex tenses?  I mean a tense like: (with kora) korechhilam, korechhila, korechhilo, korechilen.  Also, I've sometimes heard my grandmother use phrases like "dekhbar lagchhe" or "hatbar lagchhe".  Are these a standard tense or are they a colloquialism?
Taajikhan 21:55, 27 Apr 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Future Tense

message: I changed some of the transliterations and added the Bangla script. The transliteration changes were in line with the concept of transliteration being pronunciation based rather than spelling based. In some cases Bangla spelling is not a great indicator of how to pronounce, unfortunately. For example, khāoā is closer to the actual word than khaoya. য় creates a problem because it works as a fill-in for vowel. I would say let's use y to replace য় only when য় is separately pronounced as an ই sound. Does that sound sensible? -- Urnonav 09:51, 29 Mar 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: য় is pronounced as ই when at the end of the word. Actually in that case "e" and "i" would sound identical unless you were deliberately overstressing on the "i" to make it distinct; so I am not sure which English sound it would map to directly. 'khaoya' still doesn't sound right to me. As a native speaker I have no clue how I will ever pronounce that! Wait, are you trying to say "khawaya" i.e. the shuddho form? I'll try to fill in the past table soon. --  Urnonav 05:00, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Table and transliteration of verbs

message: KS, I think the current version is a mixture of the habitual past tense and the simple past tense. For example, apni chinlen is not habitual. It's a one time event. apni chinten, however, is something that happened over an extended period of time. I'm making changes I feel necessary. If you had a different point that I'm not seeing, please let me know. -- Urnonav 14:05, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Yikes! I must have forgotten to change the rest—I had copied the entries from the table above. Thanks for fixing it! — Knowledge Seeker দ 16:24, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Habitual past tense

message: hi all,
just to let you know, i made some changes to the verb tables to keep them consistent with the transliteration scheme. i also have started expanding the postposition section. as is so disgustingly typical of me, i am finding myself just listing postpositions and avoiding a really detailed description. sigh. --SameerKhan 09:53, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  transliteration 

message: Hi, this article is very interesting and well-written.  One point, I'm a bit mystified as to why there is no locative case for "the student".  Can this be amended, or can it be explained why there is no locative for animate nouns? Wilgamesh 21:58, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Basically, there is no locative form of animate nouns. One could make one, like chhatro-ţa-(t)e, but it would mean nothing. To mean something like "in the student", Bengalis would use other constructions like "in the student's mind" or "inside the student's body". The plain locative would be avoided. It's true that in poetry, forms like amate "in me" are found, but no one would say this in normal speech. This would be replace by amar mone "in my mind/heart" or amar shorirer bhitore "inside my body". Anyhow, I hope that answers your question. The forms either don't exist or are only used in archaic constructions. --SameerKhan 04:32, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

text: Interesting.  Can this be added to both clarify the intentional blank entry, and to demonstrate a feature of the grammar?  In contrast, slavic languages, which also make a distinction between animate and inanimate (but only for masculine nouns) and have several declensions, do in fact have a regular locative for animate nouns.  e.g. volk (wolf), v volke (in the wolf)  On the other hand, perhaps this becomes too detailed.  I suspect that some people might find this to be inappropriately boring and detailed to the general wikipedia reader.  I'm only suggesting this though because the table looks  a bit bizarre with a blank entry and with no explanation.  Wilgamesh 06:00, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Locative for Animate nouns 

message: Looking for non-finite forms of the verb (conjunctive participle, present participle, etc.)  No discussion or examples so far. PEHook 02:00, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Added a little something. --SameerKhan 04:54, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Non-finite forms 

message: Could someone please confirm if the Bengali script in this article is all correct? Wiki-uk (talk) 14:47, 12 January 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Better late than never - looks good to me. Applesandapples (talk) 12:40, 15 November 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Check Bengali script in article 

message: Does anyone who knows more than I about writing Bengali know which romanisation system is used here?
Justin Kunimune (talk) 13:31, 24 June 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Romanisation scheme 

message: There's no past continuos case here: ami ghumacchilam, tui ghumachilish, tumi ghumacchile, aapni ghumacchilen, o ghumacchilo. (I was sleeping, you (informal) were sleeping, you were sleeping, you (formal) were sleeping, he/she/it was sleeping.
I learned Bengali informally though, so before I attempt to implement these changes, I wanted to see if anyone knew why this was left out.
Susama Agarwala (talk) 21:46, 10 June 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Past continuous 

message: Ar 103.103.126.22 (talk) 12:59, 23 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  A 

message: সে শুধু আমার বাবা নয় সে আামর পৃথিবী 103.200.37.212 (talk) 14:40, 20 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  সে শুধু আমার বাবা নয় সে আমার পৃথিবী 

message: বিশেষণ 202.181.18.253 (talk) 13:43, 7 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  বিশেষণ 

message: Apnay bhalo asian 137.59.220.119 (talk) 08:13, 15 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bangali 

message: Apnah bhalo asian 137.59.220.119 (talk) 08:14, 15 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Urdu