Pronouns & Être / Avoir
സർവ്വനാമങ്ങളും être/avoir ഉം
être (to be) and avoir (to have) reshape themselves for nearly every French pronoun. Malayalam's equivalents never change at all.
Grammar Comparison
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Être conjugates fully; ആണ് doesn't
je suis, tu es, il est, nous sommes, vous êtes, ils sont — six different forms
ഞാൻ ആണ്, നീ ആണ്, അവൻ ആണ് — ആണ് never changes, for any pronoun
être is one of French's most irregular verbs, taking a different shape for almost every subject. Malayalam's ആണ് (aanu) stays completely fixed regardless of who or what you're describing — the pronoun alone carries the information that être's changing forms carry in French.
Avoir conjugates too; Malayalam builds possession without a verb
j'ai, tu as, il a, nous avons — a fully conjugating verb for possession
എനിക്കുണ്ട് (to-me there-is) — no dedicated possession verb exists at all
French treats having something as a fully irregular conjugating verb, just like être. Malayalam has no equivalent verb — it attaches ഉണ്ട് (there-is) onto the possessor, marked the way a dative would be, so 'I have' literally reads as 'to me, there is'.
Vocabulary
വാക്കുകൾ
- Malayalam
- ഞാൻnjan
- English
- I
- Malayalam
- അവൻavan
- English
- he
- Malayalam
- അവൾaval
- English
- she
- Malayalam
- ഞങ്ങൾnjangal
- English
- we
- Malayalam
- അവർavar
- English
- they
- Malayalam
- ഞാൻ ആണ്njan aanu
- English
- I am
- Malayalam
- എനിക്കുണ്ട്enikkundu
- English
- I have
- Malayalam
- അവൻ ആണ്avan aanu
- English
- he is
- Malayalam
- അവൾക്കുണ്ട്avalkkundu
- English
- she has
- Malayalam
- ഞങ്ങൾ ആണ്njangal aanu
- English
- we are