-त जाणे

Developing Step by Step

Level 4Sounds Like ta jāṇē

It often goes with होणे for change: मुले मोठी होत गेली.

How It Works

Use -त जाणे for a slow change that you can watch: the rain gets heavier, the road gets narrower, a story gets better as you read.

Change	Marathi
growing	पाऊस वाढत गेला.
becoming	आवाज कमी होत गेला.
feeling more	कथा आवडत गेली.
learning step by step	मी शिकत गेले.

With होणे, the pattern becomes होत जाणे: रस्ता अरुंद होत गेला. The word before होत describes how the thing turns out: अरुंद, मोठी, कमी, जास्त.

जाणे agrees with the one who changes or acts: पाऊस … गेला, कथा … गेली, मुले … गेली. In the past it is गेला, गेली, गेले; in a request it is जा.

Compare the two ways to keep going. बोलत राहिला says he did not stop. बोलत गेला says he went on and on, often telling one thing after another. A change that grows or shrinks, such as पाऊस वाढत गेला, takes जाणे.

A person can be the one who goes on: ती गात गेली means she sang on and on, one song after another.

Examples (5)

पाऊस वाढत गेला.
The rain got heavier and heavier.
वाढत गेला shows the rain growing step by step.
मुले मोठी होत गेली.
The children kept growing up.
होत गेली agrees with मुले, a neuter plural.
रस्ता पुढे अरुंद होत गेला.
The road got narrower and narrower ahead.
अरुंद होत गेला says the change is gradual.
मी वाचत गेलो आणि कथा आवडत गेली.
I kept reading, and I liked the story more and more. A man is speaking.
आवडत गेली agrees with कथा.
मी रोज थोडे थोडे शिकत गेले.
I kept learning a little each day. A woman is speaking.
शिकत गेले ends in -ले because the speaker is a woman.

Common Mistakes

Using the -ता form.
पाऊस वाढता गेला.
पाऊस वाढत गेला.
The -त form is the one that joins with जाणे.
Not matching गेला to the noun.
पाऊस वाढत गेली.
पाऊस वाढत गेला.
पाऊस is masculine, so the verb is गेला.

How It Connects

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-त जाणेLevel 4Developing Step by Step

Learn This First

Go on doing is another -त form.

-त राहणेKeeping an Action Going
Know -त राहणे, because -त जाणे is the second verb of that kind: ते बोलत राहिले, वाढत गेले.
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