Intermediate Bangla (Bengali)

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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