Imperatives are verb particles that adds an imperative mood to the sentence to emphasize request, command or order
8.1 Giving Commands
To give order, you just add the es (se) particle after the verb
ka! tI@ nnq@ es
(kàa tēe nān se)
- Go there
But even without it, if you don't use the khāa in end, then the sentence can sometimes in itself sound rude and like a command
ma# tI@ nj@
(máa tēe nāi)
- Come here
To the Tai people, it just sounds a bit rude/casual when you don't say khāa
8.2 Making Requests
To make requests, you use kháen tāw in the beginning or se kám in the end
ma# es kM#
(máa se kám)
- Please come
xVnq# eta@ n[q@ tI@ nj@ xa@
(kháen tāw nāng tēe nāi khāa)
- Please sit here
Or you could use both of them together to make a long sentence like “kháen tāw máa se kám”
8.3 Polite Mood
Though not really an imperative but if you just want to make a sentence polite then you can simply add khāa in the end
xopq@ c] xa@
(khāwp tsau khāa)
- Thank you
hUpq$ knq xa@
(hôp kan khāa)
- See you again
And, that was all for the imperatives lesson. Head out to tenses section, to learn more about verbs after this and check out the other lessons too.
Happy Learning
- Learn Ahom Team
We thank @birmanicus for providing all audio in this lessons as well as other lessons. So please make sure to follow him on instagram
8.1 Giving Commands
To give order, you just add the es (se) particle after the verb
ka! tI@ nnq@ es(kàa tēe nān se)
- Go there
But even without it, if you don't use the khāa in end, then the sentence can sometimes in itself sound rude and like a command
ma# tI@ nj@(máa tēe nāi)
- Come here
To the Tai people, it just sounds a bit rude/casual when you don't say khāa
8.2 Making Requests
To make requests, you use kháen tāw in the beginning or se kám in the end
ma# es kM#(máa se kám)
- Please come
xVnq# eta@ n[q@ tI@ nj@ xa@(kháen tāw nāng tēe nāi khāa)
- Please sit here
Or you could use both of them together to make a long sentence like “kháen tāw máa se kám”
8.3 Polite Mood
Though not really an imperative but if you just want to make a sentence polite then you can simply add khāa in the end
xopq@ c] xa@(khāwp tsau khāa)
- Thank you
hUpq$ knq xa@(hôp kan khāa)
- See you again
And, that was all for the imperatives lesson. Head out to tenses section, to learn more about verbs after this and check out the other lessons too.
Happy Learning
- Learn Ahom Team
We thank @birmanicus for providing all audio in this lessons as well as other lessons. So please make sure to follow him on instagram