Grammar Rules (व्याकरण नियम)

The rules that make Marathi correct — tenses, gender, number, cases, sandhi, samas, voice and punctuation.

12 lessons

Tenses (काळ)

The three tenses (काळ) in Marathi — present, past and future — and their sub-types with examples.

Grammatical gender (लिंग) in Marathi — masculine, feminine and neuter, and how words change.

Number (वचन) in Marathi — singular and plural — and the rules that change a word’s form.

The eight cases (विभक्ती) of Marathi, their कारक relationships and the प्रत्यय that mark them.

How Marathi sentences are built (वाक्यरचना) — the SOV order, kinds of sentences and agreement.

Voice (प्रयोग) in Marathi — कर्तरी, कर्मणी and भावे — and how to convert between them.

Reporting speech in Marathi — converting direct (प्रत्यक्ष) to indirect (अप्रत्यक्ष) statements.

Sandhi (संधी) — how two sounds join to form a new word, with types and worked examples.

Samas (समास) — how words combine into compounds, the main types and how to split them (विग्रह).

Prefixes (उपसर्ग) in Marathi — small units added before a word to change its meaning.

Suffixes (प्रत्यय) in Marathi — endings added to words to form new words and grammatical forms.

Marathi punctuation marks (विरामचिन्हे) — names, uses and rules for clear, correct writing.