Outside of Gujarat, Gujarati is spoken in many other parts of South Asia by Gujarati migrants, especially in Bombay and Pakistan (mainly in Karachi). The Gujarati language is more than 700 years old and is spoken by more than 55 million people worldwide. It is the 26th most widely spoken language in the world by number of native speakers as of 2007. As of 2011, Gujarati is the 6th most widely spoken language in India by number of native speakers, spoken by 55.5 million speakers which amounts to about 4.5% of the total Indian population. In India, it is the official language in the state of Gujarat, as well as an official language in the union territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu. Gujarati is descended from Old Gujarati ( c. Gujarati is part of the greater Indo-European language family. Gujarati ( / ˌ ɡ ʊ dʒ ə ˈ r ɑː t i/ Gujarati script: ગુજરાતી, romanized: Gujarātī, pronounced, previously English: Guzerati ) is an Indo-Aryan language native to the Indian state of Gujarat and spoken predominantly by the Gujarati people. Light red are regions with significant minorities, dark red a majority or plurality It is also like Strong Verb.Map of the Gujarati language. It is also like Weak Verb.Īn irregular verb forms its past tense or past participle, or both, in an unpredictable way: by adding no ending at all, by changing the vowel of the base form, by adding a different ending, or by using a combination of these methods (let ~ let ~ let, meet ~ met ~ met, swim ~ swam ~ swum, blow ~ blew ~ blown). This ending may be pronounced /d/ (accused, activated, viewed), /ed/ (accepted, hacked, listed), or /t/ (mixed, searched, slipped). Based on the spelling we classify the verbs into regular or irregular verbs.Ī regular verb forms its past tense and past participle by adding -d or -ed to its base form.
Regular and Irregular Verbs: Verbs can be regular or irregular. Such Verbs are called Strong Verbs, because they are able to make their Past Tense without having anything added. The Verbs form their Past Tense by merely changing the inside vowel of the Present Tense, without having -ed, or -d, or -t, added to the Present. If a Verb required -ed, -d, or -t to be added to the Present Tense to form the Past, with or without any change of the inside vowel, it is a Weak Verbs. The verbs form their Past Tense by adding -ed, or -d, or -t to the Present. They are so called because from them we can form all the other parts of verb. Strong and Weak Verbs: The principal parts of a verb in English are -> The Present Tense, the Past Tense, and the Past Participle. It is therefore better to say that a verb is used Transitively or Intransitively rather than that it is Transitive or Intransitive. Most verbs can be used both as Transitive and Intransitive verbs. INTRANSITIVE VERB: An Intransitive Verb is a Verb that denotes an action which does not pass over to an object, or it expresses a state or being as
They do not give any meaning bout they are used to describe a subject. They tell us about a state of being of existence. These verbs do not show action they are verbs of being. ‘Be’ verbs: A verb which says something about a subject is called telling or saying verb. Verb comes from the LATIN verbum, a word. The verb is the most important word in a sentence.ĭefinition 2: A VERB is a word that tells or asserts something about a person or thing. Definition 1: A VERB is a word which tells us about an action or an occurrence or a state of someone or something.