Marathi numbers 1–10

Marathi personal pronouns

Marathi marks formality in "you" and, unusually for the region, splits "we" into inclusive and exclusive forms. Marathi nouns and pronouns also inflect for three genders — masculine, feminine, and neuter — which verbs agree with.

Marathi present tense verbs

Marathi present tense endings (-तो/-ते/-तोस/-तेस, etc.) agree with both the person and the gender of the subject. Conjugated here for करणे (karṇe, "to do").

Marathi negation with नाही

नाही (nāhī) is Marathi's all-purpose negator. It typically comes after the verb it negates, and doubles as the everyday word for "no."

Marathi postpositions

Marathi attaches short postpositions to the noun, and the possessive/adjective postpositions change form to agree with the noun's gender.

Marathi question words

Marathi wh-questions use a fixed set of question words; का (kā) placed at the end of a sentence can also mark a yes/no question.

Marathi sentence structure — building a basic sentence

Marathi follows Subject-Object-Verb (SOV) order. Adjectives come before the noun, and postpositions come after it.