Kannada Lesson 6
The Instrumental-Ablative Case Welcome to Lesson 6 of Kannada by @currylangs! Today’s lesson is about ತೃತಿಯ ವಿಬಕ್ತಿ (tṛtiya vibhakti), the third case, which is the instrumental-ablative. This case is used to indicate a noun as the way you do something or the item that you use to do something. It is also used to indicate a noun as a point from which movement is going away. Let’s first look at all the endings:
See how the instrumental-ablative is used in practice in the examples below:
ಮೀನಮ್ಮ ಶಾಲೆಯಿಂದ ಬರುತ್ತಾಳೆ.
Mīnamma śāleyinda baruttāḷe.
Mīnamma comes from school
ನಾನು ಈ ಮೂರ್ತಿಯನ್ನು ಕೈಯಿಂದ ಶಿಲ್ಪ ನಿರ್ಮಿಸುತ್ತೇನೆ.
Nānu ī mūrtiyannu kaiyinda śilpa nirmisuttēne.
I make this statue by hand.
ಈವರು ಶಿಮ್ಮೊಗದಿಂದ ಹೊರಡುತ್ತಾರೆ.
Īvaru Śimmogadinda horaḍuttare.
They depart from Shimoga.
ಈ ಮನೆಯನ್ನು ಏನಿನಿಂದ ಕಟ್ಟುತ್ತಾನೆ?
Ī mane ēnininda kaṭṭuttāre?
What does he make this house from?
Personal Pronouns in the Instrumental-Ablative Case:
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