{"id":128,"date":"2025-11-30T19:13:55","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T00:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/nepali\/chapter\/chapter-5-unit-1-key-vocabulary\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T12:58:58","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T16:58:58","slug":"chapter-5-unit-1-key-vocabulary","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/nepali\/chapter\/chapter-5-unit-1-key-vocabulary\/","title":{"raw":"Unit 1 \u2014 Key Vocabulary","rendered":"Unit 1 \u2014 Key Vocabulary"},"content":{"raw":"

In this unit, you will learn common Nepali words for identifying people. You will practise using \u0915\u094b (ko<\/em>) \u201cwho,\u201d \u0915\u0939\u093e\u0901\u092c\u093e\u091f (kah\u0101\u0303b\u0101\u1e6da<\/em>) \u201cfrom where,\u201d and words for people, roles, countries, languages, and nationalities.<\/p>\r\n

Study the words below first. Read each Nepali word, look at the transliteration, and practise saying it aloud. Use the English meaning to check your understanding.<\/p>\r\n[table id=451 \/]\r\n\r\n[table id=452 \/]\r\n

[table id=453 \/]<\/div>\r\n
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Practice<\/h2>\r\n

Look at the people around you, in your class, or in a picture. Practise asking who they are and where they are from.<\/p>\r\n

Example:<\/p>\r\n

\u0909\u0939\u093e\u0901 \u0915\u094b \u0939\u0941\u0928\u0941\u0939\u0941\u0928\u094d\u091b?
uh\u0101\u0303 ko hunuhuncha?<\/em>
Who is he\/she?<\/p>\r\n

\u0909\u0939\u093e\u0901 \u0935\u093f\u0926\u094d\u092f\u093e\u0930\u094d\u0925\u0940 \u0939\u0941\u0928\u0941\u0939\u0941\u0928\u094d\u091b\u0964
uh\u0101\u0303 widy\u0101rth\u012b hunuhuncha.<\/em>
He\/She is a student.<\/p>\r\n

\u0924\u092a\u093e\u0908\u0902 \u0915\u0939\u093e\u0901\u092c\u093e\u091f \u0939\u0941\u0928\u0941\u0939\u0941\u0928\u094d\u091b?
tap\u0101\u012b\u0303 kah\u0101\u0303b\u0101\u1e6da hunuhuncha?<\/em>
Where are you from?<\/p>\r\n

\u092e \u0915\u094d\u092f\u093e\u0928\u093e\u0921\u093e\u092c\u093e\u091f \u0939\u0941\u0901\u0964
ma ky\u0101n\u0101\u1e0d\u0101b\u0101\u1e6da hu\u0303.<\/em>
I am from Canada.<\/p>\r\n

\u0924\u092a\u093e\u0908\u0902\u0932\u093e\u0908 \u092d\u0947\u091f\u0947\u0930 \u0916\u0941\u0936\u0940 \u0932\u093e\u0917\u094d\u092f\u094b\u0964
tap\u0101\u012b\u0303l\u0101\u012b bhe\u1e6dera khu\u015b\u012b l\u0101gyo.<\/em>
Nice to meet you.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/div>","rendered":"

In this unit, you will learn common Nepali words for identifying people. You will practise using \u0915\u094b (ko<\/em>) \u201cwho,\u201d \u0915\u0939\u093e\u0901\u092c\u093e\u091f (kah\u0101\u0303b\u0101\u1e6da<\/em>) \u201cfrom where,\u201d and words for people, roles, countries, languages, and nationalities.<\/p>\n

Study the words below first. Read each Nepali word, look at the transliteration, and practise saying it aloud. Use the English meaning to check your understanding.<\/p>\n

People and Roles<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Nepali<\/th>\nTransliteration<\/th>\nEnglish<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
\u0935\u093f\u0926\u094d\u092f\u093e\u0930\u094d\u0925\u0940<\/td>\nwidy\u0101rth\u012b<\/em><\/td>\nstudent<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u0936\u093f\u0915\u094d\u0937\u0915<\/td>\n\u015bik\u1e63ak<\/em><\/td>\nteacher<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u0936\u093f\u0915\u094d\u0937\u093f\u0915\u093e<\/td>\n\u015bik\u1e63ik\u0101<\/em><\/td>\nteacher (female)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u092a\u094d\u0930\u093e\u0927\u094d\u092f\u093e\u092a\u0915<\/td>\npr\u0101dhy\u0101pak<\/em><\/td>\nprofessor \/ instructor<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u092a\u094d\u0930\u094b\u092b\u0947\u0938\u0930<\/td>\nprophesar<\/em><\/td>\nprofessor<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Countries, Nationalities, and Languages<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Nepali<\/th>\nTransliteration<\/th>\nEnglish<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
\u0915\u094d\u092f\u093e\u0928\u093e\u0921\u093e<\/td>\nky\u0101n\u0101\u1e0d\u0101<\/em><\/td>\nCanada<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u0915\u094d\u092f\u093e\u0928\u0947\u0921\u093f\u092f\u0928<\/td>\nky\u0101ne\u1e0diyan<\/em><\/td>\nCanadian<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u091c\u093e\u092a\u093e\u0928<\/td>\nj\u0101p\u0101n<\/em><\/td>\nJapan<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u091c\u093e\u092a\u093e\u0928\u0940<\/td>\nj\u0101p\u0101n\u012b<\/em><\/td>\nJapanese<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u0915\u094b\u0930\u093f\u092f\u093e\u0932\u0940<\/td>\nkoriy\u0101l\u012b<\/em><\/td>\nKorean<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u0928\u0947\u092a\u093e\u0932\u0940<\/td>\nnep\u0101l\u012b<\/em><\/td>\nNepali<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u0905\u0919\u094d\u0917\u094d\u0930\u0947\u091c\u0940<\/td>\na\u1e45grej\u012b<\/em><\/td>\nEnglish language<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

<\/p>\n

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Useful Sentence Patterns<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Nepali<\/th>\nTransliteration<\/th>\nEnglish<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
\u0909\u0939\u093e\u0901 \u0915\u094b \u0939\u0941\u0928\u0941\u0939\u0941\u0928\u094d\u091b?<\/td>\nuh\u0101\u0303 ko hunuhuncha?<\/em><\/td>\nWho is he\/she?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u0909\u0939\u093e\u0901 \u0935\u093f\u0926\u094d\u092f\u093e\u0930\u094d\u0925\u0940 \u0939\u0941\u0928\u0941\u0939\u0941\u0928\u094d\u091b\u0964<\/td>\nuh\u0101\u0303 widy\u0101rth\u012b hunuhuncha.<\/em><\/td>\nHe\/She is a student.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u0909\u0939\u093e\u0901 \u0936\u093f\u0915\u094d\u0937\u0915 \u0939\u0941\u0928\u0941\u0939\u0941\u0928\u094d\u091b\u0964<\/td>\nuh\u0101\u0303 \u015bik\u1e63ak hunuhuncha.<\/em><\/td>\nHe is a teacher.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u0909\u0939\u093e\u0901 \u0936\u093f\u0915\u094d\u0937\u093f\u0915\u093e \u0939\u0941\u0928\u0941\u0939\u0941\u0928\u094d\u091b\u0964<\/td>\nuh\u0101\u0303 \u015bik\u1e63ik\u0101 hunuhuncha.<\/em><\/td>\nShe is a teacher.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u0924\u092a\u093e\u0908\u0902 \u0915\u0939\u093e\u0901\u092c\u093e\u091f \u0939\u0941\u0928\u0941\u0939\u0941\u0928\u094d\u091b?<\/td>\ntap\u0101\u012b\u0303 kah\u0101\u0303b\u0101\u1e6da hunuhuncha?<\/em><\/td>\nWhere are you from?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u092e \u0915\u094d\u092f\u093e\u0928\u093e\u0921\u093e\u092c\u093e\u091f \u0939\u0941\u0901\u0964<\/td>\nma ky\u0101n\u0101\u1e0d\u0101b\u0101\u1e6da hu\u0303.<\/em><\/td>\nI am from Canada.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u0909\u0939\u093e\u0901 \u091c\u093e\u092a\u093e\u0928\u0940 \u0939\u0941\u0928\u0941\u0939\u0941\u0928\u094d\u091b\u0964<\/td>\nuh\u0101\u0303 j\u0101p\u0101n\u012b hunuhuncha.<\/em><\/td>\nHe\/She is Japanese.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u092e \u092a\u0928\u093f \u0935\u093f\u0926\u094d\u092f\u093e\u0930\u094d\u0925\u0940 \u0939\u0941\u0901\u0964<\/td>\nma pani widy\u0101rth\u012b hu\u0303.<\/em><\/td>\nI am also a student.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u0924\u092a\u093e\u0908\u0902\u0932\u093e\u0908 \u092d\u0947\u091f\u0947\u0930 \u0916\u0941\u0936\u0940 \u0932\u093e\u0917\u094d\u092f\u094b\u0964<\/td>\ntap\u0101\u012b\u0303l\u0101\u012b bhe\u1e6dera khu\u015b\u012b l\u0101gyo.<\/em><\/td>\nNice to meet you.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

<\/div>\n

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Practice<\/h2>\n

Look at the people around you, in your class, or in a picture. Practise asking who they are and where they are from.<\/p>\n

Example:<\/p>\n

\u0909\u0939\u093e\u0901 \u0915\u094b \u0939\u0941\u0928\u0941\u0939\u0941\u0928\u094d\u091b?
uh\u0101\u0303 ko hunuhuncha?<\/em>
Who is he\/she?<\/p>\n

\u0909\u0939\u093e\u0901 \u0935\u093f\u0926\u094d\u092f\u093e\u0930\u094d\u0925\u0940 \u0939\u0941\u0928\u0941\u0939\u0941\u0928\u094d\u091b\u0964
uh\u0101\u0303 widy\u0101rth\u012b hunuhuncha.<\/em>
He\/She is a student.<\/p>\n

\u0924\u092a\u093e\u0908\u0902 \u0915\u0939\u093e\u0901\u092c\u093e\u091f \u0939\u0941\u0928\u0941\u0939\u0941\u0928\u094d\u091b?
tap\u0101\u012b\u0303 kah\u0101\u0303b\u0101\u1e6da hunuhuncha?<\/em>
Where are you from?<\/p>\n

\u092e \u0915\u094d\u092f\u093e\u0928\u093e\u0921\u093e\u092c\u093e\u091f \u0939\u0941\u0901\u0964
ma ky\u0101n\u0101\u1e0d\u0101b\u0101\u1e6da hu\u0303.<\/em>
I am from Canada.<\/p>\n

\u0924\u092a\u093e\u0908\u0902\u0932\u093e\u0908 \u092d\u0947\u091f\u0947\u0930 \u0916\u0941\u0936\u0940 \u0932\u093e\u0917\u094d\u092f\u094b\u0964
tap\u0101\u012b\u0303l\u0101\u012b bhe\u1e6dera khu\u015b\u012b l\u0101gyo.<\/em>
Nice to meet you.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1076,"menu_order":1,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"Unit 1 \u2014 Key Vocabulary","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":"cc-by-nc-sa"},"chapter-type":[49],"contributor":[],"license":[57],"class_list":["post-128","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry","chapter-type-numberless","license-cc-by-nc-sa"],"part":126,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/nepali\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/nepali\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/nepali\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/nepali\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1076"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/nepali\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2302,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/nepali\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/128\/revisions\/2302"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/nepali\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/126"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/nepali\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/128\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/nepali\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/nepali\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=128"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/nepali\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=128"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/nepali\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}