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Lesson 14.54A1
Directions & Getting Around
ದಾರಿ ಕೇಳುವುದು
Asking for and understanding directions puts the imperative and location words you'll formally study later to early, practical use — for now, treat these as fixed survival phrases.
Grammar Comparison
ವ್ಯಾಕರಣ ಹೋಲಿಕೆ
geradeaus, links, rechts — direction words as fixed adverbs
German
Gehen Sie geradeaus, dann links. (Go straight, then left.)
Kannada
ನೇರವಾಗಿ ಹೋಗಿ, ಆಮೇಲೆ ಎಡಕ್ಕೆ. (straight go, then to-the-left)
Direction-giving in both languages leans on a small fixed set of adverbs (geradeaus/ನೇರವಾಗಿ, links/ಎಡ, rechts/ಬಲ) dropped into an imperative sentence, rather than full grammatical case marking. Learn this set as ready-to-use survival phrases now — you'll revisit the imperative's du/ihr/Sie forms formally in A2, and the two-way prepositions (in, an, auf) that describe exact locations in the next level.
Vocabulary
ಪದಗಳು
Wo ist...?voh ist
- Kannada
- ...ಎಲ್ಲಿ ಇದೆ?...elli ide?
- English
- Where is...?
geradeausgeh-RAH-deh-ows
- Kannada
- ನೇರವಾಗಿneravaagi
- English
- straight ahead
links / rechtslinks / rekhts
- Kannada
- ಎಡ / ಬಲeda / bala
- English
- left / right
an der Eckeahn dair EK-eh
- Kannada
- ಮೂಲೆಯಲ್ಲಿmoleyalli
- English
- at the corner
die Straßedee SHTRAH-seh
- Kannada
- ರಸ್ತೆraste
- English
- street
Wie komme ich zu...?vee KOM-eh ikh tsoo
- Kannada
- ನಾನು ...ಗೆ ಹೇಗೆ ಹೋಗಬೇಕು?naanu ...ge hege hogabeku?
- English
- How do I get to...?