Bengali/Talking about oneself

আপনি কেমন?

In this chapter we shall discuss how to talk about oneself, including professions, locations, visual appearances, personalities, and likings.

মানে
We have introduced a lot of vocabulary in this dialogue, but we defer to the Vocabularies pages for anything more specific about them.

First we ought to introduce the possessive pronouns (keeping in mind the way this chart is organized):

To form a possessive of any noun, simply tack এর onto the end if it ends in a consonant and র if it ends in a vowel.

There are no prepositions in Bengali, only postpositions. Some of them are hooked directly onto the end of a word, but most have an intervening object to make the relation clearer. Notice how 'in Barisal' is translated as 'বরিশালে', but how 'within Bangladesh' is translated as 'বাংলাদেশের মধ্যে' (lit. "in Bangladesh's middle").

Generally speaking, when you are saying someone has (noun phrase), you are saying that 'someone's (noun phrase) exists'. Therefore 'আমার কালো চুল, খয়েরি চোখ, আর নিল জামা আছে' means 'My black hair, brown eyes, and blue clothing exists'.

করা আর যাওয়া - to do and to go
When you 'like something', you literally 'do a liking to it'. It's about time we introduce the simple present tense of two major verbs in Bengali--ones that you ought never to forget when speaking the language.

Notice how the verbs are NOT conjugated for number. This goes hand-in-hand with the general lack of a plural in Bengali, unless of course a mass or a set needs to be specified. Also notice that all the formal pronouns take the same form of verb. For brevity, we shall condense verb tables to make these relationships clear, as in করি করো করিশ করে করেন, much like the way Wiktionary presents it.

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