-ৰ বাবে
For Someone or Something
-ৰ বাবে means “for”.
How It Works
| For | Phrase |
|---|---|
| me | মোৰ বাবে |
| you (friend) | তোমাৰ বাবে |
| everyone | আটাইৰে বাবে |
| the boy | ল’ৰাজনৰ বাবে |
| whose | কাৰ বাবে |
The phrase can come before the thing: আটাইৰে বাবে চাহ “tea for everyone”. It can also stand inside a sentence: এই ঘৰটো মোৰ বাবে সৰু “this house is too small for me”.
The ending -ৰ goes on the noun, and বাবে stands apart. A classifier stays on the noun: ল’ৰাজনৰ বাবে.
The pronoun forms are the same ones you use for “my” and “your”: মোৰ ঘৰ “my house”, মোৰ বাবে “for me”.
The question is সেইটো কাৰ বাবে? “who is that for?”.
Examples (4)
- আটাইৰে বাবে চাহ।
Tea for everyone.
আটাই “everyone” becomes আটাইৰে before বাবে.
- এই ঘৰটো মোৰ বাবে সৰু।
This house is too small for me.
মোৰ বাবে means “for me”.
- সেইটো কাৰ বাবে?
Who is that for?
কাৰ is “whose”, and কাৰ বাবে is “for whom”.
- এই কিতাপখন ল’ৰাজনৰ বাবে।
This book is for the boy.
A classifier stays on the noun before -ৰ.
How It Connects
Learn This First
বাবে stands right after a word that ends in -ৰ, so learners need -ৰ first.
Related Patterns
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