Politics & Society
రాజకీయాలు మరియు సమాజం
Political vocabulary leans heavily on the passive voice from this course — policy discussion is rarely about who did something, but about what was decided or enacted. Telugu's own passive auxiliary turns out to be one of the tidiest grammatical matches you'll find anywhere in this course.
Grammar Comparison
వ్యాకరణ పోలిక
Political language prefers the passive — actors disappear
Das Gesetz wurde verabschiedet. (The law was passed — no mention of who passed it)
చట్టం ఆమోదించబడింది. (law approve-బడు-past — the actor is similarly omitted)
Both languages reach for the passive when discussing institutional decisions, deliberately backgrounding who specifically acted: wurde verabschiedet and ఆమోదించబడింది both center the law itself rather than the parliament that passed it. Telugu builds this with the -బడు (badu) passive auxiliary attached to the verb stem ఆమోదించు ('to approve') — the same auxiliary highlighted as a close cognate match to German's werden-passive elsewhere in this course. Political and journalistic register in both languages treats this passive as the neutral, default way to describe institutional action, not as evasiveness.
Vocabulary
పదజాలం
- Telugu
- ప్రభుత్వంprabhutvam
- English
- the government
- Telugu
- చట్టంchattam
- English
- the law
- Telugu
- ఎన్నికennika
- English
- the election
- Telugu
- పార్టీpaarti
- English
- the political party
- Telugu
- ఓటు వేయడంotu veyadam
- English
- to vote
- Telugu
- సమాజంsamaajam
- English
- society