-ৰ for Belonging

Belonging: -ৰ

Level 1Sounds Like ra

-ৰ joins an owner to a thing: ৰিনাৰ ঘৰ “Rina’s house”.

How It Works

The ending -ৰ is the Assamese “of”. It sits on the owner, and the owned thing follows.

Owner	With -ৰ	Example
ৰিনা	ৰিনাৰ	ৰিনাৰ ঘৰ “Rina’s house”
ল’ৰা “boy”	ল’ৰাৰ	ল’ৰাৰ কলম “the boy’s pen”
মানুহ “person”	মানুহৰ	মানুহৰ নাম “the person’s name”
ঘৰ “house”	ঘৰৰ	ঘৰৰ দুৱাৰ “the door of the house”

A word that already ends in ৰ gets another one, so ঘৰ becomes ঘৰৰ.

The pronouns have their own forms, such as মোৰ “my” and তোমাৰ “your”. Words that end in a classifier take -ৰ at the end, as in মানুহজনৰ নাম “the man’s name”.

Examples (4)

ৰিনাৰ ঘৰ ডাঙৰ।
Rina’s house is big.
-ৰ joins ৰিনা to ঘৰ.
জোনালীৰ গাড়ী ৰঙা।
Jonali’s car is red.
The owner is a name and the owned thing follows.
সেই মানুহজনৰ নাম ভাস্কৰ।
That man’s name is Bhaskar.
-ৰ goes on the end of মানুহজন, after the classifier.
ল’ৰাৰ কলম ক’লা।
The boy’s pen is black.
ল’ৰাৰ is the owner, and কলম follows.

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-ৰ for BelongingLevel 1Belonging: -ৰ

Learn This First

-ৰ joins an owner to a thing inside a sentence, so learners need the word order first.

Basic Word Order
Know the sentence order, because -ৰ joins the owner to the thing in it: ৰিনাৰ ঘৰ “the house of Rina”.
Level 1

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