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Conjunction: अनि (ani)
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The Conjunction ‘Ani’ can loosely be translated into ‘and after that’. It denotes that the events of the sentence that succeeds ‘ani’ happened after the events of the previous Sentence. If you shorten ‘and after that’, it would be ‘and’. For example, you can say ‘He drank poison and after that, he died’ and shorten it yet make sense ‘He drank poison and he died’ or ‘He drank poison and then he died’. This will be a short lesson, because not much should be told about this.
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TO SHOW THAT EVENT ‘Y’ HAPPENED AFTER EVENT ‘X’ OCCURED
'Ani' is basically a conjunction. A conjunction joins two sentences into one. Suppose, there are two events, X and Y, condition that Y happened after X. You can construct two sentences with those two events taking place. So it will be : X occured. Y occurred after X. |
Let’s replace those events with real life events.
Mary ate a cake. Mary ate a biscuit. So ‘Mary ate a cake’ is event X. ‘Mary ate a biscuit’ is event Y. We can conclude that she ate the biscuit after she ate the cake. Therefore, this sentence satisfies the criteria of using the conjunction ‘Ani’. Or in English, you can simply say ‘Mary ate a cake (first) then she ate a biscuit’. Let’s say something like that! |
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Take this sentence:
ऊ विष खायो । ऊ मर्यो (u bish khayo . u maryo) = He consumed poison. He died. You can see that the sentence fulfills the criteria of X event (poison consumption) happening before Y event (death) but both occurring in the same timeline. So we can safely write ‘ani’ to join these two sentences: |
ऊ विष खायो अनि ऊ मर्यो (u bish khayo ani u maryo)
= He consumed poison and then he died. |
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'Ani' is a famous word in conversations, really. Take this conversation:
A: Hitler le Nazi Party banayo! (Hitler created the Nazi Party) B: Ani (and?) A: Ani usle dherai manche lai maryo! (And then he killed many people) B: Ani (and?) A: Tetti Nai. Ke, ma chai kathakar ho ra thora? (That much. Do you think I am a story teller?) [Frankly, I do Nazi this going Anne where] When ‘ani’ is used in conversations, it sends a meaning of ‘And’ or ‘Go on’ or ‘Keep saying’. |
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