Kannada Phrase of the Day – Revision C
baralla: will not come, does not come.
ivattu bus baralla. (Today the bus will not come.)
tinDige baralla. (I will not come for breakfast.)
ivattu maLe baralla. (Today rain will not come.)
naaLe uuTakke baralla. (Tomorrow I will not come for dinner.)
autogaLu namma kaDe baralla. (The Autos won't come to our area.)
nannage kannaDa baralla.
(I don’t know how to speak Kannada. Literally: Kannada does not come
to me.)
Happy Ganesha/Gowri Habba!
S J Chakravarthy
August 2008
Approximate vowel pronunciation:
Short vowels: Elongated vowels:
o as in “open”/ oo as in “soap”
e as in “egg”/ ee as in “tape”
a as in “cut” / aa as in “ah”
i as in “it” / ii as in “eat”
u as in “put” / uu as in “tooth”
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Adapted for Kannada 4 the Day by S. J. Chakravarthy, August 2008
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