About: Sinhala Grammar #23

Ayubowan!

Today’s lesson will be a short one. We will be learning how to express the equivalent 

of ‘about’ in Sinhala.

Let’s start like always with an example sentence:

Anusha was telling me about her family.

Anusha eyage pawulak gæna mata kiuwaa.

අනුෂ  එයාගේ පවුලක් ගැන මට කිඋවා.

In this sentence, the subject of the conversation is Anusha’s family. To establish it as

the topic of the conversation, we just need to add ‘gæna’ to the end of ‘eyage pawulak’. 

Let’s look at a few more examples.

Me potha wizardge iskole gæna 

මේ පොත  විසර්ඩ්ගේ  ඉස්කෝලේ ගැන.

This book is about a school for wizards. 

E movie eka mokakgæna 

ඒ මොවිඑ එක මොකගැන 

What’s this movie about?

From what I understand, ‘mokakgæna’ is like a compound word. Hopefully I’ll be

able to find more examples of these compound question words if there are more.

If I do, I will definitely talk about them in a future lesson.

That’s all for this lesson! Like always, feel free to leave any questions or thoughts

down in the comments below. Make sure to tune in for the next lesson on the 20th.

Thank you for reading!