The first chapter was about learning ” I ” and ” My ” of Marathi. I assume that you know how to tell your name and you know the difference between माझा , माझी & माझे. Now I want you to learn a few more words. Words or rather verbs which will help you to explain something more about you.
Learn “How do you give your introduction in Marathi”. This introduction is nothing but answers of :
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What is your name ?
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What do you do ?
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Where do live ?
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What do you learn ?
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What do you speak ?
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Where do you work ?
Answers of all these questions will form your first ever introduction in Marathi.
Let us start
माझे नाव बराक ओबामा आहे.(Maze naav Barak Obama ahe) |
मेरा नाम बराक ओबामा है | | My name is Barack Obama |
मी डॉक्टर आहे.(Mi Doctor ahe) |
मै डॉक्टर हूँ | | I am a doctor. |
माझा फोन नंबर ५५६६२२ आहे.(Maza phone number 556622 ahe) |
मेरा फोन नंबर ५५२२६६ है | | My phone number is 556622 |
मी TCS मध्ये काम करतो .(Mee TCS madhe kam karto ) |
मै TCS मे काम करता हूँ | | I work in TCS. |
मी मुंबईला राहतो.(Mee Mumbai la rahato) |
मै मुंबई मे रहता हूँ | | I live in Mumbai. |
मी मराठी शिकतो.(Mee marathi shikto) |
मै मराठी सीखता हूँ | | I learn Marathi |
मी हिंदी बोलतो .(Mee hindi bolto) |
मै हिंदी बोलता हूँ | | I speak Hindi. |
Is this getting too big to digest ?
Worry not. Don’t memorize . Just read them once and observe its similarity with Hindi sentences .
We can actually say that Hindi and Marathi are daughters of Sanskrit. So it is quite natural for these two sisters to look similar.Hindi almost exhibits 1 : 1 correspondence with Marathi. As I have been repeatedly telling, Marathi words when twisted a little become Hindi words and vice-versa. “बोलतो” is बोलता हूँ ” and “राहतो” is “रहता हूँ”. That is why Marathi is easiest language to learn if you know Hindi.
In Marathi, there is a difference when a lady speaks and when a gentleman speaks. Unlike English, you can actually find out the gender of the author whom you are reading. Verbs slightly modify themselves to suit to the gender. Same is the case in Hindi. See the picture below. It is all self-explanatory.
As the picture tells us, the suffix of the verb is different for masculine and feminine gender. For masculine: all verbs in present tense end with “तो” and for feminine: all verbs end with “ते”.
Lets have a quick recap of what we just read:
You learned 5 new verbs in Marathi. 1)Live 2)Speak 3)Learn 4) Work and 5) Is (be verb)
and you learned how to use these verbs to give your first ever introduction in Marathi .
So , before closing this page and going to surf other not-so-important websites please take a quiz and solve exercises . This will help to grasp what you just read so the hard-work of last 10 minutes does not go waste.
Your introduction (Personal pronouns)
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Introduction (Male) :
am/is/are | आहे. | मी मुलगा आहे. | मी इंजिनिअर आहे. | मी जोकर आहे. |
work | काम करतो . | मी काम करतो. | मी बँक मध्ये काम करतो | मी रेल्वे मध्ये काम करतो. |
live | राहतो | मी पुण्याला राहतो. | मी दिल्ली ला राहतो | मी चेन्नईला राहतो. |
learn | शिकतो | मी गुजराती शिकतो. | मी तेलगु शिकतो. | मी बंगाली शिकतो. |
speak | बोलतो. | मी जर्मन बोलतो. | मी फ्रेंच बोलतो. | मी अरबी बोलतो. |
Introduction (Female):
am/is/are | आहे. | मी मुलगी आहे. | मी इंजिनिअर आहे. | मी जोकर आहे. |
work | काम करते. | मी काम करते. | मी बँक मध्ये काम करते | मी रेल्वे मध्ये काम करते. |
live | राहते. | मी पुण्याला राहते. | मी दिल्लीला राहते | मी चेन्नईला राहते. |
learn | शिकते | मी गुजराती शिकते. | मी तेलगु शिकते. | मी बंगाली शिकते. |
speak | बोलते. | मी जर्मन बोलते. | मी फ्रेंच बोलते. | मी अरबी बोलते. |
thanks for the site and help. it is very nicely put together to learn and assimilate in an easy and effective manner. God bless you!
Thank you Sreevidya.
Ha excellent site aahe
हा साईट झकास आहे
maaji naav sagar aahe
maaji baba peralysis
me bpo madhye kaam kartho
I hope I learnt perfectly.. Thanks to you
बहुत अच्छा तरीका है ये सीखने का|
मैं इस साईट पर नया हूँ| आज से सीखना शुरू किया है|
उम्मीद है कि तीस दिन में काफी सीख लूँगा|
धन्यवाद अवनीश जी| आशा करता हूँ आप अपने १० मिनट यह वेबसाईट पर हर दिन बितायेंगे और नई भाषा सीखने का आनंद लेंगे|
जी, जरूर
मी मराठी अवश्य शिकेन|
तुम्ही सांगितलत तर मी शिकेन|
Great !!! work
i am glad that there is a website who work on grammatical portions also.
thank you
too bad there ain’t one for English too, Swati.
Great job done..
Brilliant site… I have been searching for such a site since past few years. Finally I guess i have found what i was searching for… Gr8 work Akshay
I am surfing net for a long time. But putting compliments first time you can understand how happy I am Thanks
Though the English used is far from perfect, it is easily understandable, and the effort is to be appreciated.
The tone used is a pleasant one, making it a joy to go through the lesson.
Amazing website sir.. having been in Mumbai for a while now, I can understand Marathi.. but wasn’t very sure when it came to conversing.. this is surely a very simple and effective way to learn.. in fact.. such websites for all Indian languages will help overcome the language barrier that we face when travelling through our own country. Kudos!!
Amazing Work.
thanxx a lot 4 dis website .. i have been searching 4m d past many months .. atlast finally i got it .. !!
I am learning marthi with every chapter of yours
Excellent site, easy to use friendly and relevant tutorial. It is like made for me
Thank for coming up with this website..thanks !!
changla website aahe…..
main mumbai mein nayi hoon..and mujhe bhasha shikhne ka bahut shaauk hain….
mazi naav dhira aahe….
mi marathi shikte
mi bangla bolte….
sorry….in the earlier one it should have been
maze naav dhira aahe….
Your site has made learning marathi easier and interesting
Thnxs dear…….ur website is awsm……n plz try to make app for iphone.
Thank you for the wonderful site and simple explanations! Love learning like this
Does the second exercise on this page assume that the person is female?
of-course Jimmy. The name Kavita itself tells us that the person is a female.
where to use “madhye” and “la” to mean “in(english)”?what’s the difference?
madhye = in
-la = to
but look above, it’s “mumbai-la” to mean ‘in mumbai’ and also “TCS-madhye” to mean “in TCS”
you can also say “mumbai madhye”
its really nice way to learn marathi… :): ):):)
Thank you for the this web set.
Well done
I have a doubt.
In the exercises it says “maaze naav sachin aahe”. Isn’t mera = maaza? So shouldn’t it be “maaza naav sachin aahe”?
mera is maaza
but
in Marathi we say mere naam that is maaze naav .
please translate this in Marathi
my name is ravi
I lives in Varanasi
I came from Varanasi
I completed my graduation from Allahabad university and post graduation from bhu
presently I am working as teacher at chs , which is a part of bhu.
Hi Ravi,
The first two sentence you should be able to translate on your own after reading first two lessons. The other two I am translating for you.
I came from varanasi = मी वाराणसी चा आहे. (It is like I am of Varanasi)
I completed my graduation from Allahabad university and post graduation from bhu =
presently I am working as teacher at chs , which is a part of bhu. मी माझे graduation अलाहाबाद विद्यापीठातून केले आणि post graduation बी एच यु मधून . सध्या मी सी एच एस मध्ये शिक्षक म्हणून काम करतो आहे.
This is really a great site..to learn the language.I’ve always been interested to learn new languages..& now its easy to learn in a fun way…Thanks a lot
aaj pehle hi din i am able to give my intro thanx a ton akshay for making me fall in love with the language
Thanks for very comprehensive tutorial.
Please keep it up.
A fantastic site. Today is my first day of tutorial and I thoroughly enjoyed and mastered the lesson. Thanks a lot……
मी मागर्पत्ता मध्य काम करतो 😉
maaza nav Ajay aahe
Me pune-la madhe raahto
me marthi sikhto
me engineer aahe
me hindi bolto
marathi sikhto (ke liye) ek numbe site aaye,
Thnx Ajay .
This is a wonderful site and a lot of effort must have gone in to make it. Really appreciate the hard work and the good intention to promote a language.
Above all keeping it free takes the cake. My heart felt thanks to you. I am learning Marathi as Marathi literature is very rich and I was always dependent on the translated books. After this I can read them directly without depending on translations.
I wish this site grows in the coming days and is recognized as the fountain of learning Marathi language.
Thanks Amit for leaving such a wonderful and encouraging comment.
Appreciate your hard work that you put in to create this wonderful site & helping others so that they can learn completely new language very easily.
I have gone through the above examples but little bit confused . In example “Maze naav Barak Obama ahe “. Here you use Maze for My but in the other e.g “Maza phone number 556622 ahe “. Here you use Maza for My Phone no.
Where to use Maze & Maza
maaze for neuter gender
maazaa for masculine
nice work done…helping me a lot to learn marathi…love the language !!!
Good it is helping a lot to learn marathi
We said “maazaa naav gabbar aahe” initially.
But here it says “maaze naav baraak obaamaa aahe”.
Why “maaze” in this case, even though the usage is in the same sense?
Thanks for this wonderful site—I love the language and I am eager to learn it!
Ooops! My mistake! It does say “maaze naav” in the previous lesson. Sorry!
Thanks for introducing me to a very fine Marathi. Now I can say to my friend Mee Marathi Shiktho !!!
Dear Akshay,
As in someones reply , you have mentioned that the sufffix -la means “to”.
Then what does ” ME MUMBAILA RAHTO ” mean.
please reply
Hi Raj,
English and Marathi do not hold one is to one correspondence.So,it is not always that “to” of English is “la” of Marathi.There are no rules,it is only a way of teaching.
Regards
Akshay
Wonderful website. I have trying with a few books. It was really very difficult. I wish we had more akshays in all languages who take such a pain to make the language learning so much easier…..
Thanks Biswajayee.
Hi Akshay,
My Marathi friend says if I have to say ‘I live in Mumbai’ it needs to be:
Mee Mumbait Rahto
rather than: Mee Mumbaila Rahto, which according to him mean I live AT Mumbai which is ofcourse grammatically wrong.
Please clarify.
Thanks!
Hi Godwin,
First, Mi Mumbai la rahato doesn’t translate to I live AT Mumbai.Do not go by word to word translation.
Secondly, Mee Mumbait Rahto and Mumbai la Rahto both sentences are correct and they both mean ” I live in Mumbai”. Their usage depends on the situation.
If you are Delhi and want to tell someone that you live in Mumbai, You will say : Mee Mumbai la Rahto
If you are Mumbai and want to tell someone that you live in Mumbai then you can say : Mee Mumbait Rahto.
Hope I cleared your doubt.
Regards
Akshay
fantastic.
Thanks for the quick clarification.
excellent effort! u have made so easy to learn marathi. your website stands as a example for other indian languages.
thanxxx … its really very helpfull for me to learn….
hi,….
if any one can help me to learn Marathi.. pls help me bcoz i want to learns as soon as possible… this website is really very very good…. boz of this learns few words in Marathi…. now i little bit understand what my friend says….
Excellent….this website has shown the simplest way to learn Marathi …..tried a lot to speak from listening to natives…but could learn little as it was difficult to observe the small grammatical nuances …but thanks to this website that iam learning very fast….
maajha naav anshul aahe
mi pune la rehto
mi engineer aahe
mi hindi bolto
mi marathi shikto
wowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww. its great. its easy way to learn marathi
Awesome method. I wanted something which can help me learn Marathi with basics and not just big flashy list of words which I couldn’t frame into a sentence. Hope to Learn Marathi in 30 days! Thanks!
First of all, I appreciate your efforts. It is very friendly, the examples are very good.
One problem as I feel is, in Quiz, it is not clear who is the gender to fill the blank. For example “मी TOI मध्ये ______________.(work)”, we don’t know who is this party in terms of gender. As a visitor I may be girl or a boy so you have to mention that it is related to which gender or you have to accept the answer for “काम करतो” [Male] or “काम करते” [Female].
Please let me know your views.
Regards,
Srinivas
Yes, you are right Srinivas.
an excellent way to digest marathi for beginners. thanks for your benevolent services to marathi and to beginners
Thanks a lot.. I realize that Marathi is not that tough and I already know quite a bit..
Thanks again..
i got 93% on personal introduction
हि site खूब चांगली आहे. I Like it very much .
Great
Mee Nagaraj ahe,
The site is very good as it is self explanatory and user friendly. Thanks
Thanks Nagaraj.
Its very very useflull site for bigener Im very gratefull to the whole management and owner and founder and publisher to this online class really thanks and god bless you thank god
Hi, first place, grt website..i have just started using it. Have the following doubt.
Why is it – मी मराठी शिकतो and मी c++ शिकते ???
Thanks,
Male : mee shikto
Female : mi shikte
In my native tongue there is no masculine – feminine gender differentiation for non living things. Is there a rule or an easy way to identify gender of objects?
Thanks for this wonderful site.
Hi Tom,
There are no specific rules to identify genders. You only have to memorize them.
Thanks.
Thank you for this ! Very helpful to learn Marathi.
I am very glad to find such a useful site.i hope this will fulfill my desire to learn marathi.
मी खूप दिवसापासून शोधात आहे पण अशी साइट मिळाली नाही मला हि साईट खूप आवडली
माझा नाव फारूक अन्सारी आहे . मी मालेगावला राहतो मी MA English आहे
मी MEDICAL Represetnative चा जोब करतो. मला मराठी शिक्नेयाची खूप आवड आहे …
मी या वेब्सिते सुरु करणारे माणसांचा पर्थम आभार मानतो आणि तेयाचं अभिनंदन करतो …..
How to say “I am 29 years old.” And “my age is 29 years.” In Marathi?
me ekontees varshaachaa aahe.
maaze vay 29 varshe aahe
How to say “I go to my office by local train.” in Marathi?
mee local train ne office la jato.
Mee Paras ahe. majhi aai naav Sunita ahe. Mee Punjab la rahto. Mee Adidas madhye kam karto. Mee punjabi bolto.
मैने अभी अभी मराठी सिखना शुरू किया है.
काफी हेल्प मिल रही है