Translation and Vocabulary (Anuvad aur Shabdavali): Word Order, Idiom, Gender
Translation and Vocabulary (Anuvad aur Shabdavali)
Anuvad tests sentence translation between Sindhi and Hindi/English, idiom equivalence and graded word lists. Accuracy of word order and agreement decides most of the marks.
Rules
- Sindhi is SOV; English is SVO - move the verb.
- The copula آهي/آهن stays at the end: هو استاد آهي = He is a teacher.
- Postpositions become prepositions: گهر ۾ = in the house.
- The genitive agrees with the possessed noun, and so does the English possessive.
- Idioms translate by sense: اکين جو تارو = the apple of one's eye, not "star of the eye".
Worked example
Translate: منهنجي ڀيڻ روز اسڪول ٿي وڃي. Reasoning: منهنجي ڀيڻ = my sister (feminine); روز = daily; اسڪول = to school; ٿي وڃي = goes, with the feminine habitual marker. Reordered: "My sister goes to school every day." The traps here are reading ٿي as "is" and rendering ڀيڻ as "brother".
Vocabulary to bank
- Numbers: هڪ، ٻه، ٽي، چار، پنج، ڇهه، ست، اٺ، نو، ڏهه.
- Days: سومر، اڱارو، ٻڌر، خميس، جمعو، ڇنڇر، آچر.
- Kinship: ابو، امان، ڀاءُ، ڀيڻ، ناني، دادي.
Traps that cost marks
- Word-for-word idiom translation.
- Wrong gender in possessives.
- Dropping honorifics: اوهان is polite, تون informal.
- Confusing ڪ and ک in proper names.
- Translating names of days or months literally.