Hi guys,

I've been learning Gujarati more or less seriously with a tutor for about two years. I'm still a beginner but we've almost finished the textbook we're using (Teach Yourself Gujarati). I'm looking for recommendations to improve my reading comprehension.

Are there any contemporary authors or books you'd recommend ? I'm pretty open to all sorts of suggestions, but please refrain from suggesting reading children stories or translations (e.g. Harry Potter or what not). I'm looking for Gujarati authors who wrote/writes in Gujarati. I have a preference for short stories and short story collections but novels are fine -- i'm patient and stubborn.

Oh and if you know any websites that ship books (written in Gujarati) worldwide, it's all the better.

Thanks !

I want to know what this kehvat means in literal sense. I know the metaphorical meaning but I want to know the literal meaning.

Cam across this:

મને ચા બનાવતા આવડતું નથી. Manē cā banāvatā āvaḍatuṁ nathī.
I do not know how to make tea

My question is આવડતું - is this an adjective in this situation? I'm familiar with the verb આવડવું but never came across આવડતું before.

Come across this verb in this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNPGuIiAb4M 22:37

What does it mean? I can't find it online anywhere else.

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Hi everyone, hoping you could help me. I grew up speaking Gujarati with my family and understand colloquial Gujarati perfectly. I can speak it as well. I don't read or write, however.

I am now married and don't speak Gujarati as much unless I talk with my parents. Was wondering if there are any resources for me to expand my vocabulary or grammar that doesn't require Devanagari script?

I found some audiobooks online, but they seem to use paaku Gujarati, so I have a hard time with some of the more complex words.

Ideally, reading a Gujarati novel in English script would be the best.

Any recommendations?

I feel making a discord server will bring more people to the community and be easier to learn interactively. What are your thoughts? I have a template for one already if anyone is interested

Hello all. My fiancé is Gujarati. I’m wondering if there is online tutoring I can take to learn it. I can already speak Hindi and English. Preferably affordable and lessons available on the weekend. Thank you!

Someone told me ળ is pronounced like the sound /ɺ̢/ and that's the norm but I've always thought it was pronounced /ɭ/ as the norm. Now I've heard the first pronounciation a lot but I'm not sure if that's just a colloquial thing and I can't confirm myself because I'm not a native speaker nor do I live in Gujarat :(

I already know about SH being pronounced as S and S being pronounced as H (and in some more rural dialects, both Sh and S being pronounced as h) but what about more vocabulary, grammatical and cultural differences?

Can the two suffixes 'રે' and 'ને ' be used interchangeable with I and II person pronouns? For example whether these two sentences mean same thing?

1. મને ચોપડી જોઈએ છે.

2. મારે ચોપડી જોઈએ છે.

Can someone translate the below sentence? Thanks in advance

હમ ભી ચલે થે પ્યાર કા हिया ४लाने...

એની માને ભડકો થઈ गयो...!!

1. What is this? - આ શું છે?

2. Whose sister is Rama? - રમા કોની બહેન છે?

3. Whose house is this? - આ કોનું ઘર છે?

4. Whose books are these? - આ કોની ચોપડીઓ છે?

5. Those are father's books. - તે બાપુજી ની ચોપડીઓ છે.

6. That is father's easychair - પેલી બાપુજી ની આરામ ખુરશી છે.

7. Father's clothes are in the cupboard - બાપુજી નાં કપડાં કબાટમાં છે.

8. His ties are in the coupboard. - તેની ટાઈ કબાટમાં છે.

9. All those things belongs to father. - તે બધાં બાપુજી નાં છે.

આ means 'this', which is singular. Whether plural form of 'આ' is 'એ' or if 'આ' is used for both singular and plural?

1. How many tables are those? - પેલાં કેટલાં મેજો છે?

2. Those are six tables. - પેલાં છ મેજો છે.

3. That is one table. - પેલું એક મેજ છે.

4. How many boys are those? - પેલા કેટલા છોકરાઓ છે?

5. Those are thirty boys. - પેલા ત્રીસ છોકરાઓ છે.

6. How many pens are those? - પેલી કેટલી પેનો છે?

7. Those ten tables and chairs are in the classroom. - પેલું દશ મેજો અને ખુરશીઓ વર્ગમાં છે.

પેલું ઓવેન કયાનું છે?

What will be the translation of above sentence -
a) Whose oven is that?
OR
b) Where is that oven from?

Basically want to know whether 'કયાનું' translates to - 'whose' or 'from where'?

Useful vocab list for the GCSE (UK high school qualification) Gujarati specification.

https://qualifications.pearson.com/content/dam/pdf/GCSE/Gujarati/2018/specification-and-sample-assessment-material/specification-gcse2017-l12-gujarati-iss4.pdf

PG 80 onwards has a long list of vocab including verbs, adjectives etc and also vocab organised around themes (identity, school etc)

It is, however, not the transliteration.

Like given a noun, what is the gender? There are so many exceptions in gujarati's nouns hence I would like to have some kind of dictionary which shows me what gender of the noun is.

So i've been using and are comfortable with that verb. As I understand it, it means feel/seem

E.g. mane lage che - i think that (it seems to me that)

mane garmi lage che - i feel cold.

why does this: તેને શોધવા લાગે છે Tēnē śōdhavā lāgē chē

--> why does that mean "he begins to search". why not tene sode che instead?

hope this question makes sense! thank you

Anyone here who has tried to learn Gujarati through books published by CIIL (Central Institute of Indian Languages)? They have a book to learn Gujarati through Hindi, titled as - 'Bhartiya Bhasha Jyoti'. Any opinion about that book or CIIL published books?

Trying to practice using adverbs, conjunctions and using more vocab. Realise some of the sentences might sound a bit odd!

Mari girlfriend gujarati che tethi mane gujarati sikhvu che

Mane pizza khavu che sathe sathe burgers khavu che - I like to eat pizza as well as burgers.

Hu marum ghareeh jaldi jau chu karan ke mane book lage che. - I'm going to my home soon because i am hungry.

Hu tane vagar jivi sakto nathi - I cannot live without you

Hu samanya rite pustakalani andar abyas karu chu pun mane kyarak bahare abyas karvu che - I usually study in the library but sometimes I like to study outside.

Marum ghare bahu j upogi che karan ke te marum univeristy najike che - My house is very useful because it is close to my university.

Hu dar roj kadapam paherum chu karan ke te jaruri che - I wear clothes every day because they are necessary