नीक / पैघ / छोट

Describing Words

Level 1Sounds Like nīka, paigha ā chōṭa

Describing words come before the noun and usually stay the same.

How It Works

A describing word comes before the noun and usually does not change.

The same word works for a masculine or a feminine noun: नीक बेटा, नीक बेटी. It also works for one or many: नीक लोक, नीक लोक सभ.

After the noun, with to be, the word stays the same too: गाम छोट अछि (the village is small).

पैघ means big and also older: पैघ भाइ (older brother). बड़का is also used for big in speech.

Do not use the Hindi forms such as अच्छा, बड़ा and छोटा.

नीक लोक सभ गाम मे रहैत अछि।
Good people live in the village.
नीक comes before लोक.
ई पैघ घर अछि।
This is a big house.
पैघ comes before घर.
हमर गाम छोट अछि।
My village is small.
छोट stays the same after the noun.
ओ नीक बेटी छथि।
She is a good daughter.
नीक does not change for a feminine noun.
पैघ पोखरि मे माछ अछि।
There are fish in the big pond.
पैघ describes पोखरि.

Using the Hindi अच्छा and छोटा.
छोटा गाम
छोट गाम
Maithili says छोट and नीक. छोटा and अच्छा are Hindi.

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नीक / पैघ / छोटLevel 1Describing Words

These words do not change for gender, so the fact that gender matters little comes first.

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नीकपैघछोटबड़का

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