Nepali Language and Communication Skills
Nepali Language and Communication Skills tests reading comprehension, grammatical accuracy, vocabulary and effective expression. Questions may ask for शब्दभेद, कारक, संधि, समास, वाक्य परिवर्तन, मुहावरा or a short passage interpretation. For comprehension, answer from the passage, not from memory; for grammar, identify the function of the word in the sentence.
Core rules
- वर्णमाला: स्वर and व्यञ्जन; spelling and शिरोरेखा matter.
- शब्दभेद: नाम, सर्वनाम, विशेषण, क्रिया, क्रियाविशेषण, नामयोगी, संयोजक, विस्मयादिबोधक.
- कारक: कर्ता, कर्म, सम्प्रदान, अपादान, सम्बन्ध, अधिकरण; चिन्ह include ले, लाई, बाट, को, मा.
- संधि joins sounds; समास joins words into a compound.
- मुहावरा is figurative; do not translate literally.
Worked example
In ‘रामले भात खायो’, identify the कर्ता and कर्म. Reasoning: ‘रामले’ carries the कर्ता चिन्ह ‘ले’, so राम is कर्ता. ‘भात’ receives the action of eating, so भात is कर्म. The verb ‘खायो’ agrees with the कर्ता. If the sentence were ‘रामलाई भात मन पर्यो’, राम would be सम्प्रदान/अनुभवी, not कर्ता.
Traps
Mixing कर्ता with कर्म; treating तत्सम and तद्भव as synonyms; identifying समास without finding the compound; translating मुहावरा literally; ignoring लिङ्ग, वचन and पुरुष agreement.