Sinhala/1.4

=Word classes= This part will basically teach you that how the words are classified into classes in Sinhalese. Mainly, there are three word classes in Sinhalese. They are:
 * 1) Nouns (නාම පද; Nāmə padhə)
 * 2) Verbs (ක්‍රියා පද; Kriyā padhə)
 * 3) Indeclinable words (අව්‍යය පද; Awyə padhə)
 * Prepositions (නිපාත පද; Nipāthə padhə)
 * Prefixes (උපසර්ග; Upəsargə)

Nouns ~ නාම පද
Nouns can be divided into these categories:
 * 1) Pronouns (සර්ව නාම; Sarwə nāmə)
 * 2) Abstract nouns (කේවල නාම; Kēwalə nāmə)

Pronounce were described in the previous lesson. So, Let's see how the abstract nouns are divided:
 * ජාති නාම - Jāthi nāmə
 * Nouns describing a group with similarities.
 * eg: Sinhalese, English, Men, Women...


 * ද්‍රව්‍ය නාම - Dhrawyə nāmə
 * Nouns describing lifeless objects.
 * eg: Stone, tree, book, pencil...


 * ගුණ නාම - Gunə nāmə
 * Nouns describing qualities of something.
 * eg: Fat, tall, red, kind...


 * ක්‍රියා නාම - Kriyā nāmə
 * Nouns describing an incidences, activities and doers
 * eg: Running, runner, playing, player...


 * සංඥා නාම - Sagñā nāmə
 * Nouns describing something separately from others. (Names of people and places)
 * eg: John, London, Mary, Paris...

Verbs ~ ක්‍රියා පද
Beside the basic verbs, there are few kinds of verbs. They are:
 * 1) පූර්ව ක්‍රියා
 * 2) මිශ්‍ර ක්‍රියා
 * 3) විධි ක්‍රියා
 * 4) ආශිර්වාද ක්‍රියා
 * 5) ප්‍රයෝජ්‍ය ක්‍රියා
 * 6) අසම්භාව්‍ය ක්‍රියා

Indeclinable words ~ අව්‍යය පද
Indeclinable words can be divided into prepositions and prefixes. There are no suffixes in Sinhalese.

Prepositions ~ නිපාත පද
Prepositions can be used in the beginning, middle, or end of a sentence. They are written as single words and there are a large number of prepositions in Sinhalese.

අති දක්ශ ලෙස
Prefixes can be joined to a word at the beginning of the word. These are not considered as words, because they can not be written separately. There are only few prefixes in Sinhalese.