জানো / নাজানো

Knowing: জানো and নাজানো

Level 2Sounds Like jānō / nājānō

জানো is “I know” and নাজানো is “I do not know”. The same rule gives শুনো, কিনো and আনো.

How It Works

The first-person ending usually carries the nasal mark ঁ. After a nasal consonant, the mark is usually not written.

VerbFormMeaning
জানজানো, নাজানোknow, do not know
শুনশুনোhear, listen
কিনকিনোbuy
আনআনোbring

Compare মই কৰোঁ “I do”, with the mark, and মই জানো “I know”, without it.

Examples: আমি জানো “we know”, মই নাজানো! “I do not know!” and মই বজাৰত মাছ কিনো “I buy fish at the market”. With তেওঁ, সি or আপুনি the verb ends in -ে: তেওঁ নাজানে.

Some dictionaries print জানোঁ with the mark, and you may meet it. Most writers leave the mark out, so learn জানো first.

Examples (5)

  1. আমি জানো।

    We know.

    জানো has no nasal mark.

  2. মই নাজানো!

    I do not know!

    নাজানো is না + জানো.

  3. তেওঁ নাজানে।

    She does not know.

    With তেওঁ the verb ends in -ে.

  4. মই গান শুনো।

    I listen to songs.

    শুনো also drops the mark.

  5. মই বজাৰত মাছ কিনো।

    I buy fish at the market.

    কিনো also drops the mark.

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জানো / নাজানোLevel 2Knowing: জানো and নাজানো

Learn This First

জানো has the ending -ওঁ without the nasal mark, so learners need the present endings first.

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