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Lesson 50.51B2

Describing a Graph or Chart

గ్రాఫ్ లేదా చార్టును వివరించడం

B2 speaking exams often hand you a chart and ask you to describe its trend — a fixed vocabulary of movement verbs does almost all the work, regardless of what the chart actually shows. Telugu has its own tight closed set of these verbs, and their past-tense endings even flag a grammar point from earlier in this course.

Grammar Comparison

వ్యాకరణ పోలిక

Movement verbs describe change without needing new grammar

German

Die Zahl ist gestiegen. / Der Anteil ist gesunken. (The number has risen. / The share has fallen.)

Telugu

సంఖ్య పెరిగింది. / వాటా తగ్గింది. (the number rose. / the share decreased.)

Chart description in both languages reduces to a small closed set of movement verbs (steigen/పెరుగు, sinken/తగ్గు, sich verdoppeln/రెట్టింపు అవ్వు) applied to whatever quantity the chart shows, using the Perfekt tense you already know rather than any new construction. Notice, too, that పెరిగింది and తగ్గింది both end in -ింది, the non-masculine verb ending from this course's gender-agreement grammar point — సంఖ్య ('number') and వాటా ('share') are grammatically non-masculine nouns, so they automatically take the same ending Telugu would give a feminine subject. The skill here is entirely vocabulary recognition, not new grammar — memorize the verb set and you can describe any chart the exam puts in front of you.

Vocabulary

పదజాలం

Die Grafik zeigt...dee GRAH-fik TSYKT
Telugu
ఈ గ్రాఫ్ ...చూపిస్తుందిee graph ...choopistundi
English
The graph shows...
steigen / sinkenSHTY-gen / ZINK-en
Telugu
పెరగడం / తగ్గడంperagadam / taggadam
English
to rise / to fall
sich verdoppelnzikh fer-DOP-eln
Telugu
రెట్టింపు అవ్వడంrettimpu avvadam
English
to double
der Anteildair AHN-tyl
Telugu
వాటాvaata
English
the share/proportion
die Mehrheitdee MAIR-hyt
Telugu
మెజారిటీmajoriti
English
the majority
im Vergleich zum Vorjahrim fer-GLYKH tsoom FOR-yahr
Telugu
గత సంవత్సరంతో పోల్చితేgata samvatsaramtho polchithe
English
compared to the previous year