Tamil Nadu HSE Second Year Tamil key terms

An independent vowel letter, distinguished in Tamil orthographic study from a pure consonant and a combined consonant-vowel form.

A consonant letter considered without an accompanying vowel, commonly displayed with the pulli in elementary Tamil letter analysis.

A consonant-vowel combination whose actual written form must be identified rather than confused with an independent vowel alone.

A noun naming a person, place, object or idea, whose sentence relations can be expressed through case marking.

A verb expressing an action, event or state, with its particular form contributing grammatical information in the sentence.

The system of noun relations expressed through the relevant forms and constructions, identified by meaning and grammatical context together.

A finite verb form completing the relevant assertion, distinguished from a modifying or linking form awaiting another element.

A nonfinite verbal modifier used with a noun, as in a phrase identifying the learner who has read.

A nonfinite linking verbal form contributing an action to a construction whose relevant finite assertion occurs elsewhere.

Joining behavior at a word or morpheme boundary, requiring attention to the actual letters and applicable rule.

An explicit comparison whose likeness relation is signaled in the wording rather than inferred from every descriptive adjective.

A metaphorical identification of one thing with another, distinguished from an explicit comparison using a likeness marker.

A traditional Tamil sound-linking device associated with correspondence at the beginning of the relevant words or lines.

A traditional sound correspondence commonly taught through matching second-letter patterns, evaluated in the actual words rather than English rhyme alone.

The classical interior poetic domain associated with love and related emotional situations, understood through the actual poem and conventions.

The classical public poetic domain including heroic and social themes, distinguished from private love situations in conventional classification.

Prose discourse, whose organization can involve narration, explanation or argument rather than a compulsory fixed verse metre.

The central organizing idea that connects the relevant textual details, rather than every minor incident listed without interpretation.

A concise restatement preserving essential meaning and relations, with the required length and format determined by the actual task.

Meaning transfer between languages that preserves facts, relations and register instead of replacing every word mechanically in isolation.