Help me with my questions..

[Zakiah]

Grano dostano, salamuna..As you all may have known by now, that i want to learn pashto..so aswell as following the online lessons. I will post specific questions that I have in this thread. I would really appreciate all ur help. deera deera manana. I will post about 10 questions/ sentences every day.

To begin with I want to learn adjectives..descriptive words..and nouns.

positives;
- friendly =
- nice =
- cute =
- kind =
- Intelligent =
- Amazing =
- Interesting

Negatives:
- Borring =
- dumb =
- ugly =
- heartless =
- angry =
- sad =
- scared =

Forming sentences;

You are are friendly =
they are are friendly =
we are friendly =
he is friendly =
she is friendly =


This should be it, for tonight..

[Cookiemonster]

friendly-positives;
- friendly = yaari /indiwaly
- nice = shistaa /shkali
- cute = sharanga/kallie
- kind = shawali
- Intelligent = zetaki
- Amazing = zrawroonki
- Interesting pa zra poori
:D
Negatives:- Borring = DHIGG
- dumb = lewanie biakal
- ugly = badrang
- heartless = ba zra
- angry = bakasham
- sad = kamginna
- scared = barandookie

Forming sentences;

You are are friendly = sha indiwal / sha molgari
they are are friendly = thew sha indiwalan de
we are friendly = moosh sha indiwalan yo
he is friendly = de sha indiwal de
she is friendly =da sha indiwalla da


Thank you manna roora

[Badlun]

I recommend that you may also ask these questions in the on line course for the benifit of all as recently I have posted a lesson on the adjectives there and your questions and the answers given avove will be very useful there. dera manana

[Zakiah]

Seems like cookiemonster took care of you for now.

I will wait till you post your 2nd batch of questions.

I got more lol..I wanted to know the colors

Red =
green =
yellow =
blue =
orange =
purple =
brown =
pink =
Light = (e.g. Light blue)
dark= (e.g. dark blue)
shade =

I know black is tor and white is speen.

I recommend that you may also ask these questions in the on line course for the benifit of all as recently I have posted a lesson on the adjectives there and your questions and the answers given avove will be very useful there. dera manana

ok, No problem..

I will be asking questions on that thread aswell as this one..

[Laila]

I got more lol..I wanted to know the colors

Red = Soor or surkh
green = Zarghun
yellow = Zher
blue = Shin, obee, ohdi
orange = Naranji
purple = gazari, banjarni
brown = Naswaari
pink = Gulabi
Light = (e.g. Light blue)?
dark= (e.g. dark blue)?
shade =?


Colors= Ranguna
The last three, not sure about

[Pakhtunzai]

Red = Soor or surkh
green = Zarghun
yellow = Zher
blue = Shin, obee, ohdi
orange = Naranji
purple = gazari, banjarni
brown = Naswaari
pink = Gulabi
Light = (e.g. Light blue)?
dark= (e.g. dark blue)?
shade =?


Colors= Ranguna
The last three, not sure about

Wow some of them are urdu related words, never expected that

[Fareed Khan]

True Laila. Actually, finding it a bit surprising. Since, to my kinda multi-lingual up-bringing (Pashto, Urdu, English & somewhat Punjabi) never actually understood when i'm using what language or words from exactly which language. So I thought there is actually something called as totally pure pashto and Urdu is actually a pick'n'mix of some different languages.

Few sub-questions:
1. Is it "shista" or "shaista", unless "shaista" is an Urdu word, in fact?
2. "Ugly=badrang", then whats the spelling for "cucumber's" Pashto word, baadrang??
3. "they are are friendly = thew sha indiwalan de". is it "thew" or "thwee/thuee"?
4. "Green=zarghun & Blue=shin". Good add-on to my knowledge that zarghun=green, but why do we call green tea as "shna chai"? And also, "blue = obee", is it "obee" or "aabee", water-like, also gets me curious about the origins of the word "aabee", Persian??
5. Light = Kham, "Tor-kham"!?
"Dark = Taiz", any connection with the Urdu word "taiz"? which means fast, as in urdu its "gehra" for dark.
"shade =kisam", again, any connection with the urdu word, "kisam" which actually means, "type". And, btw, what "shade" means here, in this post's context.

ps. I'm not bringing Urdu stuff here for the sake of it or cause I'm from Pakistan, but since Urdu is derived from several languages, including Pashto & Persian, so trying to understand the meaning & backgrounds!

Thanks a lot & well done for posting sort of stuff, very helpful!

[Cookiemonster]

Wow : )

[یاسمینه]

[4. "Green=zarghun & Blue=shin". Good add-on to my knowledge that zarghun=green, but why do we call green tea as "shna chai"?[/QUOTE]

Chai (چای) is in masculine, plural form so shna (شنه) is the adjectives shin (شين) in masculine plural form.

[Nokia_Apridey]

"Green=sheen & Blue=odey".......

[tor_khan]

Another opinion on naming conventions for blue/green. Note that the shared use of a common word (sheen) is not entirely unique to Pashto, but shared across many other languages that have just single word for blue/green.

http://www.pashtunforums.com/pashto-language-10/lets-learn-pakhto-pashto-450/