Verb Review Updated 07/19/21

 Ayubowan! 

The verb review has been updated with some more concepts that I have covered on this blog relating to verbs. Tune in on August 1st for the next post!

Verb Tenses: Grammar Review

This is a table of all the verb tenses that have been covered on the blog (with a few exceptions which I will post about later.) This list will be edited as I learn more ways to express ideas using verbs. Dashes indicate ideas that have not been covered yet or ideas that do not exist in Sinhala.

Next week, July 19th, I will be adding a table for the other verb modifications that did not really fit in with these tenses. Hope this is helpful and please let me know if you have any questions or suggestions.

I apologize for the fact that this table is too large for the blog. It seems that if I try to make the table smaller on my original document, the table becomes larger and takes up the entire space of the blog 😅

I'll definitely be working on getting that fixed!

	Positive	Negative
Simple Present Lesson #3	I eat rice. Mama bath kanawaa. මම බත් කනවා.	I do not eat rice. Mama bath kanne nae. මම බත් කන්නේ නැ.
Simple Past Lesson #3	I ate rice. Mama bath kaeva. මම බත් කෑවා.	I did not eat rice. Mama bath kaeve nae. මම බත් කෑවේ නැ.
Present Continuous	I am eating rice (at the moment). Mama bath kanna. මම බත් කන්න.	-
Past Continuous	-	-
Future: With Certainty (Things you will do/ Things other people said they would do.) Lesson #52	I will eat rice. Mama bath kannam. මම බත් කන්නම්.	-
Future: Without Certainty  “Might” (Things other people will do/ Things other people or yourself might do. Lesson #53	He will eat rice Literally: He might eat rice. Eyaa bath kayi. එයා බත් කයි.	-
When + Action in the present Lesson #18 Lesson #19	When I do eat rice. Mama bath kanakota. මම බත් කනකොට.	When I don’t eat rice. Mama bath kanne nathikota. මම බත් කන්නේ නැතිකොට.
When + Action in the past Lesson #19	When I ate rice. Mama bath kaevahama. මම බත් කෑවහැම.	-
Imperative Lesson #10	Eat rice! Bath kanda. බත් කන්ඩ.	Don’t eat rice! Bath kanda epaa. බත් කන්ඩ එපා.
Invitational Dialogue #1: Grammar Points	Let’s eat rice! Bath kamu. බත් කමු.	-
Conditional Lesson #27	If I eat rice~ Bath kævoth~ බත් කෑවොත්~	If I don’t eat rice~ Bath kanne nætham බත් කන්නේ නැත්නම්
While~ Lesson #22	While I eat rice~ Bath kana gaman. බත් කන ගමන්.	-

Verb Modifications

I can/ cannot eat Lesson #6	Mata kanna bæ මට කන්න බැ  *-ta form of subject pronoun must be used
I want to eat Lesson #7	Mata kanna one *-ta form of subject pronoun must be used
I like eating Lesson #8	Mama kanna aasayi මම කන්න ආසයි
To start eating	Kanna patan ganawaa කන්න පටන් ගන්නවා
To finish eating	Kanna ivaraa කන්න ඉවරා
The rice that I ate Qualifying Nouns with Verbs: Lesson #31	Mama kapu bath. මම කපු බත්
I am planning to eat	Mama kanna hadanne. මම කන්න හදන්නේ

Future Tense Part 2: With uncertainty: Sinhala Grammar #53

 Today we will be learning about the future tense. There are two aspects to the future tense.

I am covering second in this lesson.

To reiterate, these are the two concepts:

1. Accepting/ Confirming that something may happen

2. Suggesting the possibility that something may happen

Use this link to read Lesson #52 on the first concept:

https://learnsinhalawithme.blogspot.com/2021/07/future-tense-part-1-with-certainty.html

How it’s formed

Some formations of this tense are irregular, but this is the general pattern:

Kanna -> Kayi

කන්න  -> කයි 

Bonna -> Boi

බොන්න -> බෝඉ

As far as I understand, i & yi (ඉ & යි) are pronounced the same way. However, I’m not sure as to which one I should use when spelling. Let me know if any of you have any insight about this!

When can this be used?

1. When you are not sure if you or someone else will do something

2. When you are describing what someone other than yourself will do.

Examples:

Will (you) drink tea?

(Oyaa) the boida?

(ඔයා) තේ බෝඉද 

He will do his work after he comes home.

Eyaa vada karayi gedarata enahama.

එයා වැඩ කරයි ගෙදරට  එනහම. 

I might talk to her tomorrow.

Mama heta eyaata kathakarayi.

මම හෙට එයාට කතාකරයි.

That’s it for this lesson! If you have any questions or comments, leave them down below.

From now on, I will be working on practicing the concepts that I have already posted about, so I will be uploading the material that I create as I review. Tune in on June 12th for the next post. 

Thanks for reading!

Future Tense Part 1: With certainty: Sinhala Grammar #52

 Ayubowan!

Today we will be learning about the future tense. There are two aspects to the future tense.

I am covering the first today and the second in the next lesson.

These two concepts are:

1. Accepting/ Confirming that something may happen

2. Suggesting the possibility that something may happen

To form this first tense, you take yanawaa -> yannam

I will go to the store today.

Ada mama kade yannam.

අද මම කඩේ යන්නම්. 

When using this first aspect, you can only use it for things that you know for certain will

occur. This means that you can only use this aspect when it comes to talking about things

from your point of view.

This means that the following is wrong:

Dilshan will go to the store.

Dilshan kadae yannam.

දිල්ෂාන් කඩේ යන්නම්. 

You are not Dilshan, so there is no way to know for sure that he is going to the store.

However this works,

(Dilshan said) Dilshan will go to the store.

Dilshan kade yannam lu.

දිල්ෂාන් කඩේ යන්නම් ලු. 

Let’s look at a few more examples:

After we come home, we will eat rice.

Api gedarata ennahama, api bath kannam.

අපි ගෙදරට එන්නහම අපි බත් කන්නම්.

In December (I) will go to Sri Lanka with my sister.

Desæmbaraye mage akkath Sri Lankata yannam.

දෙසැම්බරයේ මගේ අක්කත් ශ්‍රී ලන්කට යන්නම්.

That is all for this lesson! The second part will be posted on July 5th at 12AM PST.

If you have any questions or comments, feel free to leave them down below.

Thank you for reading!