Monday, November 11, 2019

Sinhala Grammar #16: Started/Finished Doing

Hello everyone! I hope November has been treating you well. Today
we will be learning how to express the completion of our actions.

This requires only two components: the action we are doing and the
verb for beginning/finishing.

In Sinhala, beginning is patan gannavaa/ පටන් ගන්නවා
Finishing is ivaraa/ ඉරා

Let’s say you wanted to say that you just started eating:
As we have learned in previous lessons, that would be kanavaa/ 
In this case, we are using the plain form of this verb, which is kanna/

If we put that together:

Mama kanna patan gannavaa.
මම කන්න පටන් ගන්නවා
I am starting to eat.

If we are finishing our meal we can say:
Mama kanna ivaraa.
මම කන්නරා
I am done eating.

Thanks for reading everyone!
Like always, let me know if you have any questions

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