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Lesson 3
 
Are you vegetarian?
Goal: This conversations will teach you how to use yes-no question sentences in everyday communication. It will also teach you the use of negation in present tense. The focus is on the sentences with subject-predicate pattern. 

mIna Š nIla, tme =akaharI 2o?

nIla Š na, hu& =akaharI n9I.

mIna Š rma to =akaharI 2e kem?

nIla Šna, rma p8 =akaharI n9I.

mIna Š Ame to =akaharI 2IAe -a;.

(9o6I var rhIne)

mIna Š nIly, tu& to =akaharI n9I kem?

nIly Š hu& hve =akaharI 2u&.

mIna Š to Aap8e be =akaharI Ane nIla Ane rma ma&saharI kem?

nIly Š brabr.

mIna Š rme= Ane mhe= =akaharI 2e?

nIly Š teAo 3rma& =akaharI.

mIna Š hu& sm@ nih.

nIly Š 3rma& bnave nih. p8 ho4lma& `ay.

(b0a& `6`6a4 hse 2e.)

rma Š Aap8e rme= Ane mhe=nI rah jo;Ae.

nIly Š ha, Ae Aave p2I Ao6Rr AapIAe.

mIna Š Tya& su0I k&;k 5&6u& pIAe kem?

nIla Š ha, Ae ivcar saro 2e.

mIna Š nIly, tu& jra ve;4rne bolav to.

nIly Š -le. 

(nIly ve;4rne bolave 2e. ve;4r Aave 2e. b0a& 5&6a pI8ano Ao6Rr Aape 2e.)
Vocabulary

=akaharIadj. vegetarian

ma&saharIadj. non-vegetarian

brabradv. o.k., fine

9o6I var adv. after sometime

smjvu& v.intr. to understand

bnavvu&v.tr. to make

rah jovIv.tr. to wait

Aavvu& v.intr. to come

p2Iconj. after

Aapvu&v.tr. to give

5&6u& adj. cold

Tya& su0Iadv. until then

ivcarmasc. thought

bolavvu& v.tr. to call

pI8u&neut. drink

Note the generic use of '-a; (brother). It is normally used while addressing a male. In this communication,Mina uses the word while addressing Nila. Such a use of the word is very common in Gujarati. 

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