3. MORPHOLOGY
- Aap Aagara gae qao?
a:p a:gra: gaye the?
you Agra went were
Did you go to Agra?
5a. nahIM tao.
nahĩ: to.
neg part
Not really/Not at all.
As a coordinate conjunction, nahIM tao nahĩ: to means ‘otherwise.’
- toja, calaao ̧ nahIM tao gaaD,I CUT jaaegaI.
tez calo, nahĩ: to ga:ri: chu:t ja:yegi:.
Fast walk neg part train miss-fut
Walk fast, otherwise you will miss the train.
Another use in combination with the particle BaI bhi: indicates ‘yet,
even so.’
- Agar vah khogaa BaI ̧ tao BaI maOM ]sako saaqa nahIM jaa}Ðgaa.
agar vah kahega: bhi:, to bhi: m ́~ uske sa:th nahĩ: ja:ũ:ga:.
If he say-fut part part ĩ he-gen-obl with neg go-fut
Even if he says so, I will not go with him.
In sentence (7), tao BaI to bhi: can be replaced by ifr BaI phir bhi: ‘even
so, yet.’ In its adverbial use, tao to is a correlative of jaba jab ‘when’ or
of yaid yadi ‘if’ and it signifies ‘then.’
- jaba ]sao maalaUma huAa ̧ tao vah raonao lagaa.
jab use ma:lu:m hua, to vah rone laga:.
when he-dat know be-past part he cry-inf-obl starts
When he came to know, (then) he began to cry.
8a. yaid tuma Gar gae tao pCtaAaogao.
yadi tum ghar gaye to pachta:oge.
if you home went part repent-fut
If you go to your home, (then) you will repent.