Prakrit Grammar and Composition

SR No.: 006532
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Kamalchand Sogani
Publisher: Apbhramsa Sahitya Academy
Publication Year: 2006
Total Pages: 310
Language: English
Classification: Book_English & Grammar
File Size: 8 MB

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Lesson 54
Transitive Verbs (use in the Active Voice and the
Passive Voice)
Transitive Verbs
Kokka = To call
Dekkha = To see
Rakkha To protect
=
Suņa
= To hear
Panama = To salute, To greet Påla = To nurture, To bring up
The above Verbs are Transitive. The Transitive Verbs are used in the Active and Passive Voice. For forming the Passive Voice from the Transitive Verbs, same suffixes as were used for forming the Impersonal form are added [Lesson 47- 'ijja', ia (iya)]. The subject is changed into the Instrumental (Singular or Plural). The object instead of being in the Accusative case (Singular or Plural), is changed into the Nominative Case (Singular or Plural). After adding the suffixes of the Passive Voice to the Verb, suffixes of the Tense are added to the Verb according to the Number and Person of the object converted into the Nominative Case. The Passive Voice is formed from the Transitive Verbs in the Present Tense, Past Tense and the Imperative. In the Future Tense the Active Voice form of the Future Tense Verbal form continues and 'ijja', ia and 'iya' suffixes are not added to the Future Tense Verbal form. In the Past Tense, the Past Participle is used in the Passive Voice also. Here for the construction of the Passive Voice, only the use of Instrumental Singular is given. The Instrumental Plural should also be used. In the previous chapters we have already dealt with a-ending Masculine and Neture Genders and we have dealt with ã-ending Feminine Nominative Case. Accusative Case and Instrumental Case. In this chapter we shall be dealing with i-ending and u-ending Masculine forms in Nominative Case Singular and Instrumental Case Singular.
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