ఉండు
See also: ఉండ
Telugu
Etymology
From Proto-Dravidian. Compare Tamil உள் (uḷ), உண்டு (uṇṭu).
Verb
ఉండు • (uṅḍu) (causal ఉంచు)
Usage notes
The usage of ఉండు (uṇḍu) does not map exactly to English to be. Telugu is a zero-copula language for sentences whose predicate is a noun, so the translation of the English sentence "My name is John" would not use ఉండు (uṇḍu). However, for sentences that in English have adjectives as predicates (like He is beautiful.), Telugu would treat the adjective as an adverb modifying ఉండు (uṇḍu), so that the sentence is predicate-less and consists of a subject and a verb phrase.
Conjugation
DURATIVE TENSE | singular | plural |
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1st person: నేను / మేము | ఉన్నాను | ఉన్నాము |
2nd person: నీవు / మీరు | ఉన్నావు | ఉన్నారు |
3rd person m: అతను / వారు | ఉన్నాడు | ఉన్నారు |
3rd person f: ఆమె / వారు | ఉన్నది | ఉన్నారు |
References
“ఉండు” in Charles Philip Brown (1903) A Telugu-English dictionary, Madras: Promoting Christian Knowledge, page 148
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