Sinhala Grammar #64- Referring to a group of people

Hello everyone!

Here is a quick lesson on a common grammar construct that you will hear 

commonly in spoken Sinhala:

As we have covered in previous lessons, the pronoun for referring to a group of 

people are:

Ogolo

ඔගොල්ලො 

Egolo

එගොල්ලො

However, this might not be specific enough for your purposes. 

Let’s say that you are talking about a family with four members: 

Dilini, Mahesh, Varuni, and Nilanthi

Sinhala has an easy shortcut that you can use to refer to all of these people 

without listing them out.

Let’s answer the following question:

Kouda oya gedara ave?

Who came to your house?

You can say

Dilinila ava.

ධිලිනිල ආවා. 

Dilini's group came. 

Let’s look at another example!

Ape gedarala veralata yanawaa.

අපේ ගෙදරල වෙරළට යනවා.

We (everyone in our household) are going to the beach. 

Thank you for reading!

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