दिवसभर / रात्रभर

All Day or All Night

Level 4Sounds Like divasabhara / rātrabhara

-भर also works with places: शहरभर means all over the city.

How It Works

Join -भर to the end of a plain time word. दिवसभर पाऊस होता. (It rained all day.)

WordWith -भर
दिवसदिवसभर, all day
रात्ररात्रभर, all night
आठवडाआठवडाभर, all week
महिनामहिनाभर, all month
वर्षवर्षभर, all year
शहरशहरभर, all over the city

The word before -भर stays plain, with no ending added. A man who could not sleep says रात्रभर मी जागा होतो. A woman who spent a month in Kolhapur says मी महिनाभर कोल्हापुरात होते.

With a place word, -भर tells where something spread: सणाचा उत्साह शहरभर दिसत होता. (The festive spirit could be seen all over the city.)

The sentence often uses a progressive or होता for the stretch of time: दिवसभर पाऊस पडत होता. A task can lead to a result: रात्रभर अभ्यास करून मी थकलो. (A man says he got tired after studying all night.) The words सारा दिवस mean the same as दिवसभर.

Write -भर joined. The time word and -भर make one word, so दिवस भर with a space is wrong.

Examples (5)

  1. दिवसभर पाऊस होता.

    It rained all day.

    दिवसभर covers the whole day.

  2. रात्रभर मी जागा होतो.

    I stayed awake all night. A man is speaking.

    रात्रभर covers the whole night.

  3. ती आठवडाभर सुट्टीवर आहे.

    She is on holiday for the whole week.

    आठवडाभर covers the whole week.

  4. मी महिनाभर कोल्हापुरात होते.

    I was in Kolhapur for the whole month. A woman is speaking.

    महिनाभर covers the whole month.

  5. सणाचा उत्साह शहरभर दिसत होता.

    The festive spirit could be seen all over the city.

    शहरभर covers the whole city.

Common Mistakes

  • Writing -भर with a space.

    दिवस भर पाऊस होता.
    दिवसभर पाऊस होता.

    -भर joins the word before it.

  • Adding an ending before -भर.

    दिवसाभर पाऊस होता.
    दिवसभर पाऊस होता.

    The time word stays plain before -भर.

How It Connects

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दिवसभर / रात्रभरLevel 4All Day or All Night

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All day long uses -भर.

Words in This Pattern

भर