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Words
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Vocabulary
- Numbers 1–100112 entries
- Common verbs25 entries
- Common adjectives25 entries
- Common adverbs15 entries
- Pronouns10 entries
- Question words10 entries
- Family relations22 entries
- Colors13 entries
- Days, months & time31 entries
- Body parts24 entries
- Animals, fruits & vegetables46 entries
- Greetings by occasion21 entries
- Proverbs & idioms8 entries
Grammar
- Bengali personal pronounsBengali has formal, familiar, and intimate forms of "you". Pronouns also change with verb conjugation.
- Bengali present tense verbsBengali present tense endings change by person rather than by gender (Bengali verbs don't mark gender at all). Conjugated here for করা (korā, "to do").
- Bengali negation with নাUnlike Hindi, Bengali places its negator না (nā) after the verb, not before it. নেই (nei) is used specifically for negative existence and possession.
- Bengali case suffixesBengali attaches short case suffixes directly to the end of a noun instead of using separate preposition words.
- Bengali question wordsBengali wh-questions use a fixed set of question words placed where the answer would go.
- Bengali sentence structure — building a basic sentenceBengali follows Subject-Object-Verb (SOV) order. Adjectives come before the noun, and case suffixes attach after it.
- Bengali numbers 1–10The Bengali numerals 1 through 10.
Festivals
Bengali festivals & celebrations
Durga Puja — দুর্গা পূজা
September–October · five days
Poila Boishakh — পয়লা বৈশাখ
April 14–15 · Bengali New Year
Saraswati Puja — সরস্বতী পূজা
January–February · spring
Kali Puja — কালী পূজা
October–November · same night as Diwali
Bhai Phota — ভাই ফোঁটা
two days after Diwali
Jagaddhatri Puja — জগদ্ধাত্রী পূজা
November
Culture
Bengali culture & traditions
Bengali food
Bengali food is built on rice and fish, with mustard, poppy seeds and panchphoron giving its distinctive flavour. The arc of a Bengali meal — from shukto to mishti doi — is choreographed across courses.
Bengali music
Bengal's musical heritage is led by Rabindra Sangeet — over 2,000 songs by Rabindranath Tagore — alongside Nazrul Geeti, baul folk traditions, and the rich Bengali film music industry of Tollygunj.
Bengali dance
Bengal's classical and folk dance traditions include Manipuri-influenced classical forms taught at Tagore's Visva-Bharati and folk traditions like Chhau and Gambhira.
Bengali films (Tollygunj)
Bengali cinema is among the most-awarded in India. Satyajit Ray's Apu Trilogy, Mrinal Sen, and Ritwik Ghatak made Bengal the cradle of Indian art cinema, and the tradition continues with contemporary auteurs.
Bengali traditional attire
The Bengali woman's saree drape — pleats fanned at the front, achol pinned at the shoulder — is iconic. Sarees range from cotton tant for daily wear to Baluchari and Garad silks for festivals. Men wear dhoti-panjabi.