अभ्यासक्रम →Level 2 · रोजचे जीवन →पाठ 2
Level 2 · Lesson 2सकाळी
In the morning
सकाळी, दुपारी, संध्याकाळी, रात्री — दिवसाचे चार तयार शब्द आणि रोजचा दिवस.
Four ready-made time words, and how to string a daily routine together in the present.
ऐका · Listen
सकाळ, दुपार, रात्र
Hello, Rām! Do you get up early in the morning?
Yes, I get up early in the morning. And you?
I get up late.
What do you do in the afternoon?
In the afternoon I sit here. In the evening I go over there.
In the evening my friends come here.
Do they leave late at night?
Yes, they leave late at night. But I still get up early.
All right. Goodbye!
स्पष्टीकरण · Explanation
दिवसाचे चार भाग — सकाळ, दुपार, संध्याकाळ, रात्र. पण वाक्यात सकाळी, दुपारी, संध्याकाळी, रात्री अशी तयार रूपे येतात. केव्हा या प्रश्नाचे उत्तर हीच चार रूपे देतात.
The four parts of a Marathi day are सकाळ, दुपार, संध्याकाळ and रात्र — but you almost never use those bare forms. To say when, you use the ready-made pair-word: सकाळी, दुपारी, संध्याकाळी, रात्री. Learn them as they stand. Marathi has a large machinery of endings waiting for you in level 3, and none of it touches these four: nothing is added to them, ever.
वाक्याची सोपी रचना: सुरुवातीला केव्हा, शेवटी क्रियापद. सकाळी मी लवकर उठतो. दुपारी सीता इथे बसते. रात्री ते तिथे जातात.
Put the time word at the front and let the verb stay at the back, and the middle takes care of itself: सकाळी मी लवकर उठतो. You can also slide the time word in after the subject — मी सकाळी लवकर उठतो — and the sentence means exactly the same thing. What you cannot do is move the verb; in Marathi it lives at the end.
लवकर आणि उशिरा ही वेळेची जोडी: मी लवकर येतो, ती उशिरा येते. आणि हा वर्तमानकाळ रोजच्या सवयीचा आहे — मी सकाळी उठतो, म्हणजे रोज उठतो.
लवकर and उशिरा are the early/late pair, and they sit just before the verb: मी लवकर येतो, ती उशिरा येते. Notice also what this tense is doing. मी सकाळी लवकर उठतो is not a report of this particular morning — it is your habit, what you do every morning. The simple present in Marathi, as in English, is the tense of routines, which is why it is the right tense for talking about your day.
शब्द · Vocabulary
| शब्द | Meaning | टीप · Note |
|---|---|---|
| सकाळी | in the morning | सकाळ स्त्रीलिंगी; सकाळी हे तयार रूप |
| दुपारी | in the afternoon, at midday | दुपार स्त्रीलिंगी; दिवसाचा मधला भाग |
| संध्याकाळी | in the evening | संध्याकाळ स्त्रीलिंगी |
| रात्री | at night | रात्र स्त्रीलिंगी |
| लवकर | early, soon | क्रियापदाच्या जवळ: मी लवकर उठतो |
| उशिरा | late | लवकर याचा उलट शब्द: ती उशिरा येते |
सराव · Practice
वापरून पाहा · Use it
स्वतःचा दिवस चार वाक्यांत बोला: सकाळी मी … दुपारी मी … संध्याकाळी मी … रात्री मी … क्रियापदे पाठ २-१ मधलीच वापरा — उठतो, जातो, येतो, बसतो, करतो.
Now tell your own day in four sentences, one for each part of it: सकाळी मी …, दुपारी मी …, संध्याकाळी मी …, रात्री मी …. Use only the five verbs you already have — उठणे, जाणे, येणे, बसणे, करणे — and remember to take the ending that belongs to you. Add लवकर or उशिरा wherever it is true. Four sentences is a whole day, and you can now say it in Marathi.